Word: teheran
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...gets older, his temper gets shorter. Less & less can he bring himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...
...piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record straight, heavily embossed Iran stationery was got out and a formal protest to the State Department written, signed, sealed and delivered.* Without divulging their reason for so doing the Cabinet of Iran suddenly resigned this week at Teheran after 26 months in office under Premier Mohammed Ali Khan Feroughi...
...made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered. Later she heard a braying donkey called a "bulbul," learned that...
...long ago he decided that the great square and the side streets in the busiest quarter of Teheran should be repaved as fast as possible and for a month shop-keepers wailed as all traffic was obstructed by the pavers and customers kept at bay. Another order set up the Government Foreign Trade Monopoly, with iron rules that for everything imported Persia must make a corresponding export, or the import cannot be made. This has so strengthened the Treasury that with nearly all Great Powers off the gold standard, the King of Kings was said last week to be considering...
...hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets on a direct route...