Word: escort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With much ostentation, the Young Marshal was taken to court by a military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights...
...interesting and apt story except for one thing. I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
...Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city with a motorcycle escort. Even President Vargas was startled by the U. S. President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating...
...leaving you tonight with great regret. There is one thing, however, that I shall remember, and that is that it was two people who invented the New Deal-the President of Brazil and the President of the United States." Then driving happily down to the waterfront with an escort of red-white-&-blue uniformed guards Franklin Roosevelt put to sea on the Indianapolis, while fireworks said farewell to him from the summits of Sugar Loaf, Corcovado, Gavea, Tijuca...
Nearly 24 hours before reaching Buenos Aires, Franklin Roosevelt's second official reception began. The Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno, cruiser Almirante Brown and eight destroyers sighted the Indianapolis and its escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great...