Word: tribesmen
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...allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated the Shah's Minister of Public Works, the Emir Lashkar...
...sundry gentile newsgatherers in Irak, a statement forthcame from Ibn Saud. Through his representative at Cairo, Sheik Hafiz Wahba, the Sultan positively denied that he was making war upon the British Mandates, and stated that he was doing his best to quiet certain pugnacious bands of his tribesmen subjects who had been raiding along the frontier...
British correspondents cabled that the beings bombed were "only animals." Cows had been mangled in humane preference to mangling their tribesmen owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
...early days of University baseball, the clash was welcomed as an annual event. If the practice game is arranged this year, it will mark a renewal of the tradition and will give the Harvard team an opportunity of facing the Hornsby-bolstered Tribesmen...
...cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen there subject to Britain, France, Italy and Spain are quiet; and the ancient Ethiopian realm of Abyssinia abides prosperously under Empress Waizeru Zauditu and her great "Mayor of the Palace" Ras Taffari...