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...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...
...makes up his mind Persia's sharp-nosed "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi. is a tiger for action. Last week he sprang on Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., stock control of which is held by the Government of Britain's King George V, no tiger. In Teheran, with Reza Shah Pahlevi presiding, the Persian Cabinet denounced and cancelled Anglo-Persian's concession to exploit 500,000 sq. mi. of Persian oil land which was to have run until...
...Rejoice!" exhorted a special edition of Teheran's evening Ettelaat. "The last foothold of foreigners has been removed! Indeed, indeed this is a time for the greatest national rejoicing...
Died. Mostofi el Mamalek, thrice Premier of Persia; in Teheran, Persia. He was the only Persian given the title of Agha (Dignity or Lord) by the Shahs...
...Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, missionized in Persia, became dean of the American College in Teheran. This he built from a small high school to an institution of some 800 students. Last year he returned to the U.S. with his wife who had contracted an Asiatic malady. W. & J.'s trustees saw their chance, got Dr. Hutchison to take the presidency...