Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian front last week Commander Budenny had "enough" horses and cavalrymen ? 30,000 according to one despatch...
...Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, plump product of a mother who has definitely settled down. Birthday Flush. On the 70th birthday of Queen Emma, last week, the chief demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy avenue of the Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games (see p. 24). Netherlands recalled that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina exhibits a pious, Protestant aversion for the Olympic Games, which she regards as a deplorable pagan survival from the pre-Christian days of Ancient...
...wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit the peasants a demonstration. So next day, preceded and followed by a detachment of Rumanian cavalrymen and shaded fitfully by esquadrilles of bombing planes, 5,000 peasants began a decorous parade from Alba Julia to Bucharest...
...presents were in evidence, so newsgatherers stated that the President had given his son a large check. Also it was said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major, received a property grant from his grandmother's will. In the afternoon the three Coolidges were photographed with the 75- cavalrymen who have acted as summer White House guards. In the evening the President & Mrs Coolidge sat down to dinner with John Coolidge. In the middle of the table was a big cake. ¶The day before the President's departure for Washington, Rapid City editors addressed to him their...
Filipinos, protesting, have termed the administration of Governor-General Leonard Wood the "Cavalry Cabinet." Smooth, alliterative, the phrase vividly suggests booted, spurred cavalrymen administering Island affairs to the accompaniment of clanking sabres. Such a picture, of course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino...