Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. 22) between Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin came to a most amiable close last week amid continued, portentous secrecy. As he took ship to sail across the Black Sea to Constantinople, the swarthy dandified Tewfik Rushdi Bey assured newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with...
Portents. In diplomatic circles the belief was current that the Odessa conference was concerned with arriving at an understanding whereby Turkey will be able to apply for membership in the League of Nations without violating certain treaty obligations by which she is bound to Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors...
...main task of the first congresses was to reconcile the students of the exbellarent countries and this was fairly well achieved by means of travelling student commissions and orator delegates from the various countries. In 1924, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey sent student representatives to the Congress at Warsaw...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...slashing the traveling expense allowances of Federal employes. He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion. Now, perhaps, with the President's ouster power unrestrained, the squirming pencil of "Watchdog" McCarl will pause before striking put that Government-paid turkey dinner of some traveling official...