Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stephen flunks out of preparatory school because an honest, old professor does not consider Stephen's family name (Harlow) sufficiently important to offset his egregious ignorance of Turkish history. An irate headmaster peremptorily ousts the professor; Stephen goes to Turkey and makes history for subsequent Stephens to study. In the course of activities he acquires the Grand Cross of the Crescent for the honest, old professor...
...Jentsch 3G., Germany; H. E. Salt sp.L., Great Britain; J. W. Denis; Irish Free State; F. E. La Cauza E.S., Italy; G. N. Tanikawa 1S.L.A., Japan; Zygmut Rudolph E.S., Poland; H. I. Maximon E.S., Russia; J. Bird '24, South Africa; N. H. Field '25, Switzerland; Said Dabbus, Turkey...
...taken place every year since 1921. On each occasion some man high in the councils of the Democratic Party and personally close to the ex-President has acted as spokesman for the pilgrims. In 1921 the honor fell to Hamilton Holt; in 1922 to Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador to Turkey under the Wilson regime. This year Mr. Wilson's trusted Secretary of the Treasury, Carter Glass, sometimes spoken of among politicians- more familiarly than charitably-as " pigeon face," led the rally around his old leader...
...great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal [Mustafa Kemal Pasha, now President of the Republic of Turkey] animated his fanatic soldiers and hurled them forward towards the battle." From this statement it can be easily inferred why, in Mr. Churchill's opinion, the British were defeated on the Gallipoli Peninsula...
Colonel K. E. Clayton-Kennedy, one-fifth owner of the Chester Concession for the interior development of Turkey, recently arrived in Paris from Anatolia, main Turkish province in Asia Minor. He denied rumors that the Turkish Government had offered the Concession to the German Stinnes over the heads of the Ottoman-American Development Co., the concern which holds the Chester Concession. He stated, as proof to the contrary, that materials were in the course of shipment to Turkey; that engineers on the spot " were working under extra pressure to make up for the regrettable delays arising from the internal controversies...