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Nestling in a mountainous region along the Turkish border on the eastern Mediterranean, the 1,500-square-mile district, is a true Levantine melting pot. The Sanjak contains substantial numbers of Turks, Alaouites, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks and Circassians. Only two and a half hours by car from railway junction Aleppo, 200 miles from Damascus (see map), the Sanjak has one irresistible attraction for Great and Small Powers alike: the landlocked Gulf of Alexandretta, even in its undeveloped state one of the safest, best ports of the Levantine coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Boiling Pot | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Final standings in the In Interdormitory League were: W. L. Pot. Matthews 5 1 .834 Thayer 4 2 .667 Wigglesworth 3 2 .600 Holworthy 2 3 .400 Weld 2 3 .400 Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthews Wins Championship In Yardling Softball League | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...royal wedding on the third day went off without anyone taking a pot shot at the King. As muezzins wailed from the minarets, the tall, dark-haired Countess, dressed in a white satin gown, mounted a coach drawn by four prancing white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Zog & Jerry | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out. An honest officer, he played them back in, hit the jack pot. Out came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: 'Spring Cleaning | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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