Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nice Turk. Last spring P. E. Bishop Manning of New York and many another bishop became indignant with memories of the "Unspeakable Turk" and his Armenian and Greek massacres. Some $80,000,000 in missionary investments had become futile; Christianity could not be taught in Turkey. They asked Senator Borah to oppose the U. S. signing the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. He refused (TIME, April...
Died. Kara Kemal, onetime member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, sentenced to death as ringleader of the recent plot to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey (TIME, July 26, TURKEY) ; in Stamboul (Constantinople), after shooting himself when a group of policemen surrounded and sought to arrest...
...enumerate the decorations bestowed upon him by practically every Allied nation would be to fill half a column of TIME needlessly. He was Allenby, the last Crusader, the commander who wrested the Holy Land from the Turk...
BITTERN POINT?Virginia Macfadyen-A. & C. Boni ($2). We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality...
...debating the Anglo-Irak Treaty (TIME, Feb. 15,) which His Majesty's fiery Colonial Secretary, Colonel Leopold Stennett Amery defended in part as follows: "The rejection of this covenant would make Great Britain ridiculous in the eyes of the League of Nations, contemptible in the eyes of the Turk and odious in the eyes of the people of Irok...