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...throne. King Ananda was designated constitutional monarch in 1935 by Siam's Strong Man, Premier and Army Chief Colonel Phya Phahol Pholphayuha Sena, when King Ananda's uncle, childless King Prajadhipok, abdicated. King Ananda Mahidol was allowed to remain in Switzerland to complete his schooling and build up his frail physique, thought unfitted for the wet May-to-October monsoon of Siam. Few months ago Strong Man Phya Phahol "suggested" that King Ananda return to his kingdom at least for a visit...
...there is always the possibility of new trade or business development," Whittlesey continued. "But, since the environment is unfavorable, it would take a lot of capital to build up an economic empire...
...years as head of this school, Dr. Cubberley turned out 2,555 educators, including twelve college presidents, and won for it a "distinguished" rating. Twenty-five years ago he and his wife decided to build a home for his school, which was in crowded quarters on the old Stanford quadrangle. He quietly laid aside all his textbook profits, drew plans for his building. For 15 years he said nothing to his colleagues about his plans. Then one day in 1928 he walked into the office of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, laid $5,000 in securities...
...pious, highly literate city of Columbus, Ohio, enough Sunday newspapers were printed last week to build a dam of comics, features and news across the Olentangy River. A phenomenon in modern U. S. journalism had taken place: two new full-size Sunday newspapers were started on the same day in the same city...
...opinion," he told a Senate committee last April, "that the large rigid airship can serve very effectively. . . . Further blue-print and theoretical studies are useless unless we build and experiment-learn by trial and error, as has every other...