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...difference between a Siamese and anybody else is that the Siamese takes things more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...
...Better Yourselves!" When the President of the United States and Mrs. Herbert Hoover received 98-lb. King Prajadhipok and 115-lb. Queen Rambai Barni (TIME, May 4, 1931), Siam was the world's last country in which the Sovereign remained absolute. The Siamese Cabinet consisted chiefly of prolific Rama V's abler sons, and from that polygamous panel of 134 His Majesty had no difficulty in drawing really able Princes. To them King Prajadhipok once sternly declared: "In my own family the Princes who have no capacity and no ability have nothing to do with the government service...
...wide terrain, he issued a report this spring. Burrowing into the Badlands of Potwar, the party found five jawbones of apes, representing three new classifications, two of which more closely resemble homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...
Assistant Secretary Sayre took a leave of absence from Harvard in 1923, journeyed to Bangkok to be international law adviser to King Rama VI. His experience in negotiating commercial treaties between Siam and nine European nations seemed to qualify him for last week's new job, which will be chiefly concerned with the commercial aspects of treaties. Mr. Sayre got news of his appointment just before he saw his alma mater beat its traditional rival, Amherst, 14-to-0 at football at Williamstown...
...Rama Albert Benson Braggiotti, of Brookline...