Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Francis' eye ailment probably was trachoma, an ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final resort the doctors applied hot irons to the Saint's face...
...Thursday, March 7 Francis N. Balch '96 and Franklin Ebersole, Professors of Finance, will deliver a lecture on the gold decision. It will be held at 7.30 o'clock in Room 120, Basker Library. The subject of the talk is "The Sovereign and the Merchant: Their Money. Their Morals and Their...
...Bruce, having read the Speech, finally departed and Speaker Hipel for the first time took the Throne, henceforth during this session the Speaker's Chair. By an old Ontario custom, not observed in England, the Premier then traditionally symbolized the Legislature's sovereign rights by ignoring the Speech from the Throne for 24 hours. To fill in the time, Legislators debated the same cut & dried bill which is never passed, a measure "respecting the administration of the oath of office to persons appointed as justices of the peace...
...paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign. Last week...