Word: viziers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot centers about a conspiracy to dethrone the caliph of the city, and place in his stead a treacherous, vizier who works, in conspiracy with a court dancer, to seize the ruler's daughter, who, with the aid of a self-declared magician, exposes the treachery by preying upon the superstition of the caliph...
...following the installation of Mulai-el-Hassan as Caliph of Spanish Morocco (TIME, Nov. 16) continued last week at Tetuan. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish Military Directorate conferred upon the new Caliph the Spanish Order of the Grand Collar of Carlos III; and the Grand Vizier read a speech on behalf of the 16-year-old Mulai-el-Hassan, which terminated with a prayer for the return of peace to Morocco...
...Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, who recently arrived at Tetuan, was entertained by General Miguel Primo de Rivera at a banquet given in his honor. Present were the Grand Vizier and the chief resident Spanish officers and officials. General de Rivera commented upon the fact that he had just turned over the Spanish High Command in Morocco to General Sanjurjo; later he issued a printed address to the troops in which he described their new leader as "my companion in arms for 33 years," and extolled his virtues...
...another occasion they assembled in plenary session and, with loud huzzas, voted their indignant protest against the Emperor of China for pulling the pigtail of his Grand Vizier. They also dispatched a special messenger to His Imperial Majesty with their resolution upon the inviolability of pigtails...
After ten years of mystical communion with Ahura Mazda, but with no success in getting converts, he finally came to court. There he converted Vista Spa, the King's daughter; then the King's brother, son, Grand Vizier. He married the King's counselor's daughter. Finally the King was won, and Zoroastrianism became a militant nationalistic faith...