Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, it was announced from Alexandria, Cairo and London that ex-King-Calif Husein had sent the youngest of his four sons to London "on a private mission." It was alleged that the mission was to sound the British Government on the new situation in the Hejaz...
While saluting a Cairo crowd from the train which was to take him to Alexandria for a reception of King Fuad, Egyptian Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha was shot by a young student from a distance of three yards...
Secretaries and several others. They were buried from the White House. The second occasion was during the Civil War when an officer was shot hauling down a Confederate flag at Alexandria. The third occasion was in 1890 when the wife and daughter of Secretary of the Navy Tracy died, when their house burned to the ground...
Egypt. At Luxor, "stalemate" (TIME, March 10) is still the most accurate description of the case of Carnarvon & Carter vs. Egypt. The Government appealed in the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals from the decision of Judge Crabites, of Cairo, who found in favor of Carter. The Alexandria court upheld the Government. The American minister, Dr. Morton Howell, who, with Dr. James H. Breasted, had been seeking to persuade the Egyptians to return to its compromise agreement, was ignored by the government. Dr. Breasted has now withdrawn from the case entirely. Sir John Maxwell, acting for Countess Carnarvon, left Egypt...
...candidates numbered 1,004 for the remaining 179 seats: Don Sturzo's Catholic Party with 140 candidates, the Socialists with 100 candidates, three other opposition parties (including Giolitti's parish-pump-plus-place-holders organization and the Communists). There were also insurgent Fascisti movements in Turin and Alexandria, and the "Constitutional Opposition" headed by ex-Premier Bonomi...