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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sliced sausages, always a favorite dish of Junkers on their country estates, were set before Their Majesties at luncheon. Cooking at Neudeck is of the simplest, with an emphasis on boiled potatoes, home-made cheese and common greens. Oranges for dessert are rated a treat, served peeled and sliced. As is usual when the President has foreign guests, Old Paul blinked, smiled, nodded and said little. King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni stayed two full hours. As a send-off they got a fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored...
...second step was recovery. ... I could cite statistics of our national progress. ... I also could cite statistics to show the great rise in the value of farm products. . . . But the simplest way for each of you to judge recovery lies in the plain facts of your own individual situation. Are you better off than you were last year? Are your debts less burdensome? Is your bank account more secure? Are your working conditions better? Is your faith in your own individual future more firmly grounded? . . . Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual...
...into a second group, composed chiefly of club men. That they are dissatisfied is obvious, and the present situation can be met only through cooperation, between them and the University. Such cooperation is eminently desirable, for many of them have definite contributions to make. Their problem, reduced to its simplest terms, is, that they have just so much money to spend during the academic year; (that they have more than the average student, is beside the point); their club dues come to at least $250 a year. By living in boarding houses in and around Cambridge, they can save anywhere...
...already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare...
Reduced to its simplest terms...