Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was because the Turkish Dictator, hard-drinking but soberly-masterful Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks"), is now kicking strenuously against the announced intention of France to grant a form of independence to Syria which is a French mandate. Turkey was furious after the World War when the Turkish city of Antioch and its sanjak...
...signed last week by Messrs. Hart & Clapp and Faiz Mohammed Khan was a proviso that the concession company must be entirely American. U. S. engineers have been well regarded in the East ever since they helped complete Iraq Petroleum's 1,200 mi. pipe line across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean in 1935. More important than that, and perhaps most important for the concession to Seaboard, is the fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants on his tribesmen. His successor...
William Alfred Eddy has spent 19 of his 40 years abroad. Born at Saida (Sidon), Syria, he sailed to the U. S. to attend the College of Wooster (Ohio) and Princeton, sailed back to France with the A.E.F. to be wounded at Belleau Wood and receive the Distinguished Service Cross. With a Ph.D. from Princeton he went to Egypt in 1923, headed the English department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started...
Disclaiming any backers, Syria-born Mr. Bourjaily told the trade Mid-Week Pictorial would henceforth be administered by a corporation composed of himself, his wife and lawyer. Managing Editor would be Dr. Franz Hollering, onetime editor of the Berlin B-Z am Mittag. Editorial headquarters were to be in a remodeled five-story Manhattan brownstone. Predicted Publisher Bourjaily: "Our approach will be that of a newspicture magazine supplementing the daily and Sunday paper and trying to interpret news rather than report...
...Dallas, Texas, (Ph.D. Marshal); Henry G. H. Halvorson, of Huntington Park, California, (A. M. Marshal), Law School: Abraham R. Ginsburgh, of Wikes Barre, Pennsylvania. Divinity School: Arthur P. Colbourne, of Secretary, Maryland. Dental School: Charles M. Underwood, of New York City. Medical School: Daniel B. Dorman '32, of Beirut Syria. School of Public Health: Charles G. Hutter of Washington. Graduate School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning) Eustis Dearbon '32, of Sandwich, Graduate School of Business Administration: William S. Allen, of Winchester, Graduate School of Engineering: John H. Ferguson, of Marblehead. Graduate School of Education...