Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightship 125 miles down the River Plate from Buenos Aires an escort of six cruisers picked up the S. S. Conte Grande which was flying the yellow-&-white papal flag and bearing His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (TIME, Oct. 1). As the liner proceeded up the broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed...
...longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...
Dictators to earthquake. Neither the King of Kings nor President Kemal lacks personal courage. During the fêtes, rejoicings, fireworks, skewered lamb and champagne at Ankara last week news came of severe earthquakes in Western Turkey, the very region through which Host Kemal was about to escort Guest Pahlevi. Neither showed the slightest desire to cancel these plans. The royal Persian junket became an earnest inspection trip through the shaken area down to Smyrna with homeless families watching the Near East's two Strong...
...were playing a game of vanity in keeping each other waiting at their public appearances. These stories started when Der Führer left the Grand Hotel ten minutes ahead of schedule for a review of Fascist Militia in the square facing St. Mark's. With no military escort, the smudge-mustached Chancellor in his nondescript business suit was half way across the square before a young woman squealed "Hitler!" Ten minutes later II Duce marched in on schedule at his famed quick step. First warmly greeting Der Führer, he strode clear around the square inspecting Fascist...
...different parts of Olympia. These were broken up by Fascist "flying squads" who squelched male hecklers but stood back before women disturbers until female Fascist squelchers could rush in. As they dug in with finger nails and hair pulling, ladies in the audience paled, tugged at their escort's arms, insisted on being taken home. Suddenly from the steel rafters of Olympia, more than 50 feet above Sir Oswald, daring antiFascists set up a jeering...