Word: siam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing fields of Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation...
Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
...Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper, to decline his invitation to Salzburg, he angrily...
...receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director of Mines under Herbert Hoover. Boss Farley was determined to let no Republican into the Bureau of Mines or anywhere else if he could help...
...rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel from the U. S. Sugar at 2¢ per lb. for the first time in four years...