Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward the U. S. (1921), in search of an administrator to restore shattered Persian finances. Soon the U. S. Secretary of State at that time, Charles Evans Hughes, suggested Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as the man for Persia's money?...
...event overshadowing others in the Far East occurred last week at Teheran, when the Government of Persia extended for a sixth year the contract retaining Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as Administrator-General of Persian Finance...
When the 13 U. S. citizens comprising the original Millspaugh Mission arrived in Teheran, five years ago, each one wisely clapped upon his head a Persian variant of the fez, then put on over his business suit a long, ornate Persian robe. The 100% Persian effect of this costume was only slightly marred in Dr. Millspaugh's own case by his spectacles, his small three-cornered mustache, and the high batwing collar peeping out above his robe. The experts, thus garbed, at once began to grapple with Persians and Persian finance...
...fortunate happenings for Soviet Russia last week was the return of the Persian Ambassador at Moscow to Teheran where he became Premier. He is expected to bring Persian foreign policy into close harmony with that of the Soviet Union...
...juxtaposed with news of the victims, told that U. S. travelers were responsible for a record week of flying between London and Paris -1,539 passengers in 183 machines, with 35 tons of freight and baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers...