Word: prajadhipok
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...estate of $18,589,916; mostly to her children, Lady Ward and Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. The estate included 16 automobiles, a $290,000 77-pearl necklace, a $15,000 Gainsborough, clothes valued at $50, a debt of $6,543 due from King Prajadhipok of Siam...
Girding up their Siamese loins, yellow-robed priests bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...
...Francis Adams, John Cowles, Roland Morris and 12 other potent members of the Council got together and, presumably on President Roosevelt's say-so, picked Raymond Bartlett Stevens to head the new agency. For the last six years Mr. Stevens has served as foreign adviser to little King Prajadhipok of Siam, whose country has an external debt of ?8,500,000. An able New Hampshire lawyer, Mr. Stevens entered Congress in 1913, ran for the Senate at the end of his first term, was defeated. Woodrow Wilson kept him in Washington as special counsel to the Federal Trade Commission...
Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...