Word: sultanate
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...Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman...
...municipal pawnshop of Paris sold for $62,500 two diamonds. "Regent" and "Princess Mathilde." Held for 20 years, they were once the property of the late Abdul Hamid II, deposed Sultan of Turkey, over whose estate 22 heirs are still wrangling...
Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel...
...stranger who dropped in on a Buchman soul-washing session might fancy that he had somehow gotten into the Sultan's palace on one of the Thousand and One Nights. But if the harsh outsider should remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the psychologists exhibitionism, or if anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot...
...last 15 years Thomas has been in and around Arabia. In addition to war and political service in Mesopotamia and Palestine, he was for some years prime minister and finance minister to the Sultan of Muscat-Oman. By continuous application to the people language, and customs of Arabia, he has contributed much in the last few years to geographical and other sciences...