Word: siam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time to arrange, yet it might not be long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan's 11,000,000 spindles, was powerful enough in itself to make a binding agreement; 2) that both...
...really much shorter in Siamese" was the modest comment of Kaisui Nimmanahaeminda I G.B., of Chiengmai, Siam, possessor of the longest surname in Harvard University, when questioned about his astounding monicker in his room at the Business School yesterday...
...expressed surprise that no one in the whole University had a name longer than he. "Why, that's nothing--look at this" he said, holding up a whole page of Siamese script for the interviewer to puruse. "That's the name and titles of King Prajahdipok, former ruler of Siam. A whole page--and mine is a more 15 letters...
Although admitting that he was no relation to Prajahdipok, who visited the United States in 1933, and just recently abdicated, he professed to be one of his erstwhile loyal subjects. Siam is now ruled by a boy king, Prince Ananda, whose father graduated from Harvard in the class...
Over tow hundred foreign students registered for instruction in the University this year, making up one of the largest foreign delegations in its history. Representatives from as widely spread spots as Iran and Siam and such small countries as Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are notable...