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...President Coolidge announced two diplomatic appointments: William W. Russell, now Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Dominican Republic, was appointed to Siam with the same honors and titles. Evan E. Young, Chief of the Bureau of Eastern Affairs in the State Department, was made Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Dominican Republic...
...James W. McKane, veteran missionary physician from Siam; Dr. H. C. de Souza-Arujo, Brazilian leper specialist; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratories at Washington, also addressed the demi-tasses. Their discourse was authoritative, technical, optimistic. They knew that their fellow guests, gentlemen who like them had ministered in dim jungles and remote frontiers to living bodies half liquified by ghastly corruption, were not easily put off their diet by good meat, good talk...
...years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms, with towns upon them, airdromes, sunshine and the fresh winds of heaven. The platforms are erected over forests, rivers, lakes, like the stilted cities of Borneo and Siam, or the fabulous hanging gardens of Babylon. With transport facilities developing as they are, said Kiesler, "distance no longer exists. . . . We can live where we like...
...minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
Republican Committeewoman Lucy Patterson of Winston-Salem, N. C., signified her desire to be made Minister to Siam to succeed the Harding appointee (Minister Brodie of Oregon) whose resignation has not yet been accepted. Airs. Patterson, wealthy, ran for Congress in 1922. A Confederate veteran, Major Stedman, defeated...