Word: thai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer, ex-Attorney General Homer...
Dressed in a faultless blue suit with a white carnation in his buttonhole, pearl spats and ascot tie, he strode into court, announced thai! he had come to settle the whole affair by paying out of his own pocket Mrs. Brown's $6,500 claim, her $6,000 lawyer's fee. A gratifying uproar filled the court...
Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water...
...Fearful thai attempts would be made on the lives of British Cabinet officials, their offices and homes were heavily guarded. An extra-strong guard was given youthful Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial and Dominions Secretary, who was instrumental in bringing the leaders of Eire and the British Government together for their compromise treaty of last April...
Traveler Kostelanetz' conclusions: "It is such long-wave rebroadcasting of short wave broadcasts thai can really bring for eign propaganda lo South American ears...