Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That such was and is also the chief aim of King Prajadhipok himself His Majesty made clear during his visit to the I last year in an historic statement to the press. Paradoxically, though favoring constitutional monarchy, he has remained an absolute monarch because of the reactionary power, wealth and sheer numbers of other members of the Siamese royal family. In Bangkok the sprightly, progressive little King was strongly suspected of encouraging the People's Party to oust his relatives from the enormous number of soft, well-paid jobs they held in Siam's Government. Every member of the Cabinet...
...motivating situation?a middle-aged gentleman fatigued by his young wife?you would doubtless be prepared to supply an outline of its plot. The outline would be accurate. The young wife has a mercenary sister. The husband has a wealthy friend to whose country estate he pays a visit. Another visitor is a young architect who likes to dance. When the wife and sister arrive, the architect and the wife carry on and are soon arrested for embracing each other on a public highway. This gives the husband a chance to give his wife a divorce and marry his charming...
Returned to power after a brief eclipse (TIME, May 30 to June 20). Premier Eleutherios Venizelos has a new cheer with which to keep Greece's fickle Parliament loyal. Back in the U. S. after a visit to Athens, Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps last week revealed that he had taught Yale's famed Brekekekex cheer to the Premier at luncheon. "The long Yale cheer is the only one in the world . . . most of which is in Greek," said...
Concluding a six-week visit to the U. S. (TIME, May 2), Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," set sail for England with 15 members of his "First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone? Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone...
...backhouse. That was done. She rents out all but one acre of her Government land allotment to white farmers. They pay her a small amount of cash which suffices her for her weekly drive to town for store groceries. She never goes farther than Anadarko, eight miles away. A visit to the St. Louis Fair in 1904 disgusted her with cities, crowds...