Word: sarawak
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...daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
...bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Solomon Litman, sat tearfully in a corner, nudged by her young son Syd who cried: "Momma, look!" when Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak arrived with the bride's sister Leonora ("Princess Gold"). Countess of Inchcape and the bride's grandmother, Lady Esher...
...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...
...Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman in the flat, Mr. & Mrs. Roy have...
...restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo-12,000; India-6,850; Burma-5,150. New planting is practically banned; replanting is held down to 20% of existing area; export of seed to potential rubber regions is forbidden...