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...whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores of educational, artistic and charitable organizations...
What time royalty from Japan was viewing with disappointment the mighty cataract of Niagara (see p. 24), Mrs. William Korker, anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to work with tiny instruments and extracted the cataract (clouded crystalline lens) that caused His Majesty's U. S. visit. Soon the King cried gladly: "I see light...
...quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep through the door, the Siamese ruler left for Baltimore to have a cataract on his eye looked after...
...Wheeler diagnosed a mature cataract of the left eye and an incipient cataract of the right eye. An operation room has been prepared at "Ophir Hall...
...other Siamese in the Royal Party. But the Queen's father, genial Prince Svasti, bubbled with robust health and plans. After escorting Their Majesties to the estate they are occupying at Purchase, New York (TIME, April 20), after the reception at Washington, and after a cataract has been removed from His Majesty's left eye, "I personally plan," declared Prince Svasti, "to visit Hollywood...