Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week...
Without a constitution-which Siam has never had-King Prajadhipok could not of course become a Constitutional Monarch. In a quiet Siamese way it was announced last week that a constitution had been adopted and that "under certain circumstances the Senate has power to override the King...
That such was and is also the chief aim of King Prajadhipok himself His Majesty made clear during his visit to the I last year in an historic statement to the press. Paradoxically, though favoring constitutional monarchy, he has remained an absolute monarch because of the reactionary power, wealth and sheer numbers of other members of the Siamese royal family. In Bangkok the sprightly, progressive little King was strongly suspected of encouraging the People's Party to oust his relatives from the enormous number of soft, well-paid jobs they held in Siam's Government. Every member of the Cabinet...
...small, white-haired Professor Junkers is the absolute and active monarch of his companies. Like a sun surrounded by planets is his hauptbureau (head office). Emanating from the head office are four companies which he owns wholly and one of which he owns 60%. The profits flowing in from those companies Professor Junkers promptly pumps out to a sixth and most important project ?Junkers Research Institute. For this reason Professor Junkers is not rich. Presumably after a quarrel over this policy, he dismissed most of his directors last December...
...really feel that sculpture is my profession," said pleasant Grandmother Wiggin. "It has given me quite a thrill to have really created something."- Hearst's San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") last week took notice of that city's cultural life by reporting the completion of a fresco by youthful Artist Victor Arnautoff, onetime pupil of Diego Rivera. On the wall of his studio near the edge of the Telegraph Hill art colony Artist Arnautoff, a sociable fellow, had painted the likenesses of 23 of his friends grouped about the seated figure of a nude female model...