Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a dinner given on July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
...every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders as "Mr. Louie"-succeeded to his father's goats. Few Texas Angoras have not been...
...been Dictator (15 years). It was as if Dictator Hitler had suddenly replaced Four-Year-Plan Director General Goring by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (see col. 2). Moreover, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk brusquely called back last week from the League of Nations session famed Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, a onetime obstetrician who was present at the accouchement of Young Turkey and has represented her abroad for so long that his weak eyes, peering keenly from behind thick-lensed spectacles of highest power have become fixtures at the green tables of Europe's diplomats...
...Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council by the Assembly...
Dictator KamĊl Atatürk is not of the stuff to stand for war boats of the Great Powers receiving special facilities in Turkish ports, especially at a moment when Turkey is dropped from their Council. In Ankara last week reports were that General Inönü had backed up Dr. Aras and been cracked down upon for his pains. The British and French were quietly informed that the Turkish Government "interprets" the Nyon agreement as not affording any special Turkish facilities in the pirate patrol...