Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...methods, the Turks first asked for (and got) minority rights for their nationals in Hatay, next autonomy for the region, next "independence," with Turkish and French troops jointly "keeping order." At one time the late President Kamal Atatürk backed up his demands by massing troops along the Syrian border. At another time a League of Nations plebiscite was to be held in the district, but when most of the non-Turks banded together and it became obvious that the Turks could not win, the obliging French invited the League Commission to leave...
First cooperative hospital ever set up in the U. S., Community Hospital owes its existence to a swarthy, fiery little Syrian, Dr. Michael Abraham Shadid. Dr. Shadid is recognized as a powerful, if retiring, figure among radical U. S. medical men. This week Dr. Shadid, now 57, published his autobiography...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency...
...Roosevelt casually remarked, mentioning no names, that she had tried on a pair of shoes which "make standing for hours a pleasure." After investigating, the radio MARCH OF TIME re-enacted on the air her White House fitting by the shoe's inventor, 54-year-old, Syrian-born Cobbler James Fikany. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., Cobbler Fikany acknowledged the happy result. Deluged with orders from the U. S., Canada and England, he proudly signed articles for a $250,000 corporation. His backers hoped to expand the little Fikany business into an enterprise for Rochester...
...renaming Anatolian villages to suit Hittite history has long kept Turkish railway ticket sellers on the jump. When, two years ago, Dictator Kamal Ataturk first made up his mind that the 80,000 Turks of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of French-mandated Syria would suffer unduly under independent Syrian rule, he began his campaign for an autonomous Sanjak by calling the region "Hatay." While sanjak is an old Turkish word meaning district, Hatay was the still older name of the old Hittite Empire. Early this summer the Sanjak became autonomous under joint French and Turkish protection. Last week the Turkish...