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...dominated Kurdistan is a tolerant refuge for religious minorities, who are free to worship as they please, these groups say. But the ruling parties keep tight rein over the Muslim religious establishment through the Ministry of Awqaf, an institution that was created by Iraq's British overlords in the 1920s to control mosques, mullahs and what gets said in Friday sermons. The Baathists maintained the Awqaf as a useful tool of coercion, but it was disbanded by the American-appointed Governing Council in 2003 and forbidden by Iraq's new constitution. Yet Ministries of Awqaf still exist in Kurdistan...
...Salvatore Ferragamo had his own shop, selling shoes to the locals in Bonito, Italy. The 11th of 14 children, Ferragamo had always dreamed of creating the perfect shoe. He traveled to Boston, where he joined his brother working at a footwear company, before hitting Hollywood in the 1920s and opening the Hollywood Boot Shop. There his cowboy boots and Roman sandals were often used on movie sets, and soon celebrities came calling for custom orders. But it wasn't until 1936, when the use of leather and steel was restricted in Italy, that genius really struck. Desperate to replace...
...Abruzzo school of tailoring, which blends cutting and stitching techniques borrowed from Savile Row with softer, Mediterranean-inspired lines. The pair's Sartoria Brioni on the Via Barberini was named after the Croatian islands of Brijuni, a glamorous golf and polo getaway favored by Italian aristocrats in the 1920s...
Anti-Semitism has been an issue at Harvard since at least the beginning of the last century. A. Lawrence Lowell, the University president in the 1920s, compared Harvard to “a summer hotel that is ruined by admitting Jews,” and tried to set quotas limiting the number of Jews at the University...
...rights of women and their changing role in society have been a focus of TIME since the 1920s. More than 15 years ago, we even devoted an entire issue to the road ahead for women [Nov. 1, 1990]. In it we said, "Young women do not want to slip unnoticed into a man's world; they want that world to change and benefit from what women bring to it." Read more at timearchive.com/collections