Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venerable, venerated Paul Koundouriotis, 74, good friend and fellow revolutionist of Prime Minister Venizelos, was appointed Grand Admiral for Life in the Grecian Navy in 1919 in recognition of his notable victory over the Turkish fleet in the Balkan War of 1912-13. With the expulsion of King George 11 in 1923, Admiral Koundouriotis became Regent, and with the establishment of the republic, President...
Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern would like the concession for de-pigging Turkey...
...Merchants' Association told the press. The press told the story. Last week the Merchants' Association received a letter from one Frederick Paul, farmer, of Stemmers, Md. Wrote he: "We saw a piece in the Baltimore News saying the Turkish Government is asking your association to help them get rid of wild hogs infesting the country. So my father and I have proposed to undertake such a task. Get in touch with us. . . . P.S. We are individual, just father and son. We also will clean up the hogs in six weeks. My father is social, but when wild hogs...
...Angora, Turkey, one Rouchen Echref Bey completed a translation of Virgil's Bucolics into Turkish...
After seven years of power, business-like Dictator Kemal is itching to save wasted hours. But he is cautious. Last week he merely tabled before the National Assembly a bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan...