Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aided health enterprises in 97 states and countries. Hookworm eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
...paintings by U. S. artists will be displayed under the auspices of the National Academy of Design (Manhattan). And a vast collection of exhibits has been sent out by the Victoria and Albert Museum, together with replicas of the chief treasures of the British Museum. Canada, Australia, and the Fiji Islands have also sent exhibits. Likewise a collection of early Roman vases, discovered in Britain, will be on display...
...Advocacy of an International Police Bureau to make the Fiji Islands as dangerous for an escaped criminal as Pasadena...
...Yale News is campaigning for the abolition of compulsory chapel. It is also understood that in the Fiji Islands they are still combatting cannibalism...
...Albert-King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented; they added: "The King asked us what sort of clothes we wear...