Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regain their liberty on technicalities. There is no place in the world where crime is more rampant than it is in the United States. There are more murders and other crimes of violence committed here in a small town like Memphis, Tenn., for instance, than there are in all Turkey, and I've spent a lot of time in Turkey...
...summary of conclusions reached by the League's Commission, which recently reported on the Mosul dispute between Britain and Turkey (TIME, Jan. 5), was given out at Geneva...
...dispute concerns the boundary between the Kingdom of Iraq and the Republic of Turkey, Britain acting as the mandatory power for Iraq. Whether or no the oil wells of Mosul should belong to Iraq or Turkey is the substance of the dispute. The Commission thought that, if the wells are to belong to Iraq, Britain could not well withdraw as mandatory power for at least 20 or 25 years. If Britain should withdraw before that time (as she engaged to do in 1929 in a recently concluded treaty with Iraq), the oil area should revert to Turkey whose stability...
...Milner's own phrase, Mr. Gladstone was 'governed by his seraglio.' This foible had considerable political effect. One affair turned Mr. Gladstone from being a friend of Turkey and an enemy of Russia, as he was in the '50s, into being a friend of Russia and an enemy of Turkey...
...Yildiz Kiosk or Palace, former house of the Sultans of Turkey, was allegedly leased last week to a foreign amusement syndicate for an annual tribute of 300,000 Turkish pounds (about...