Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helping along that renaissance are reminiscent of his later harebrained schemes for the world's monetary salvation. Artists in America should be crowded into great academies and subsidized, thought Pound, preferably by millionaires. His ideal of the subsidized artist is best expressed in his anecdote about the Sultan of Zammbuck who, during a British state dinner, was once asked about the state of the arts back in Zammbuck...
...chief parties and the platforms are the same as in 1946. Led by deaf, adroit President Inönü, the Republicans are campaigning on Turkey's progress in the 27 straight years they have held power since the late great Kemal Ataürk expelled the last Sultan. Led by sober, intense ex-Premier Bayar, an Atatürk protégé ousted by Inönü in the jockeying after Atatürk's death, the Democrats declare that it is high time for a change...
Secret Orders. But one afternoon in early April top cabinet ministers held a rump meeting without the Sultan of West Borneo, sent a secret order to President Soekarno for signature. Then they went off to attend the local opening of the movie Joan...
Next morning police yanked the Sultan of West Borneo out of his suite in the capital's swank Hotel des Indes and hurried him off to confinement in the palace of his rival, the Sultan of Jogjakarta. West Borneo's Sultan, asserted Indonesian intelligence officers, had secretly masterminded Turk Westerling's rebellion...
Last week it was announced that the Sultan, confronted by captured Westerling aides, had confessed. He admitted, said a government statement, that he had ordered Westerling to attack a cabinet meeting, seize all the ministers present and shoot the Sultan of Jogjakarta. Then he had planned to set up a new cabinet, naming himself as defense minister. The plan misfired because on the day set for the attack the cabinet had ended its session earlier than the rebels expected. Now the Sultan of West Borneo was slated for a quick trial before a special court. As he sat in prison...