Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was revolt in the village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu...
...Four thousand pounds," said a quiet, mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
Married. Mulai Idriss, son and heir of the Sultan of Morocco, tc the daughter of El Glaowi, pasha of Marrakech; at Marrakech, Morocco. El Glaowi thus achieves his life ambition, to ally his family with that of Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume...
...Jolo, Sulen Island, where was another disturbance, this time a minor one, culminating in the Moro datus* unsheathing their barongs and krises ominously, but quickly quieting when appeared a little brown figure in white alpaca coat, pongee trousers, patent leather shoes, stiff color, fez. Hadji Jamalul Kiram II, famed sultan of Sulu, then spoke: ". . . If we are cast off now [by the Americans] we will fight. They can cut our heads off before we will submit to the Filipinos...