Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently as 1821 Greece was a servile Turkish province. It was largely with Russian backing that a few Greek Christians won freedom for the barren lower tip of the Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
...Washington society it was an occasion, to His Excellency Mehmet Munir Bey, Ambassador of the Turkish Republic,, it was an opportunity. Last week, the pictures and knick knacks of Mrs. John Brooks Henderson's bulbous brownstone castle on 16th Street went on the auction block...
...seemed excellent to His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador. Perched on the edge of his chair, his high bulging forehead pink with excitement, he bid again and again, walked off with seven canvases at prices ranging from $22.50 to $475. The latter was the price of an enormous highly varnished Harem Scene by Benjamin Constant...
...dried flies. And on at least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...
Meanwhile no one had forgotten the oil. France had taken Germany's place. The U. S. had cut itself in on the pure-hearted principle of the "open door." Perhaps the Turkish concession was good but the companies wanted a new one from Irak's King Feisal. At last Irak Petroleum Co. was formed and the shares were equally divided, 23% each, among the winners: The Netherlands' Royal Dutch-Shell; Anglo-Persian, in which the British Government has a 50% interest; France's Compagnie Française des Pétroles, in which the French Government...