Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...
...through the Dardanelles, scene of Britain's greatest mistake and Turkey's chief glory during the Great War, steamed the Oriental brothers. The big, splendiferous windup of the King of Kings' junket was at Istanbul where the great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile...
Gone from Turkey is the harem of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid ("The Damned") with its thousand wives and its scores of eunuchs. The blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep...
...Jupiter, docked at Rotterdam and began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final pacification of Morocco had been announced...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...