Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than ten years have passed since the Treaty of London was signed (1913), when the Powers set the boundary of Turkey-in-Europe along a line drawn from Enos on the Aegean Sea to Medea on the Black Sea. The Powers should have fixed a straight line, because, a little later, the Turks successfully upheld their claim to territory within a curved line that took in Adrianople...
Last Week, the Turk deported His All Holiness Constantinos VI, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, because he was not a Turkish citizen. The Treaty of Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 6, 1923), which ended the Greek War and the War between Turkey and the Allies, stipulated that Turkey should in no way interfere with the Patriarchate. To this the Turk now replies : "I have not interfered with the Patriarchate but with the Patriarch...
...that as it may, the Turkish Assistant Director of Police in Constantinople received a cipher message from the Grand National Assembly at An gora, new capital of Turkey, instructing him to deport the Patriarch. At the early hour of 6:30 a.m., the police official called upon His All Holiness, apprised him of his imminent de parture, courteously saw him through passport technicalities and safely upon an ordinary train which forthwith chugged him to Salonika...
...will descend from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
Four hundred pounds of turkey have been ordered for dinner at Memorial Hall this evening in anticipation of the throng of students which the management expects to attend the meal that will mark the passing of the University Commons. Manager H. M. Wing told a CRIMSON reporter last night that he will be able to serve 400 men and he expects fully that number to be present. He fears that more may come...