Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution creating a Joint Committee to investigate the pay of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, et...
...TIME, Jan. 6 et seq.), when some 200 Congressmen on the floor suddenly threw their heads back, clapped their knees, laughed uproariously. In silence they had heard the Coast Guard accused of "bloody murder." Loud had been their applause when speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard...
...lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July 4, 1927, et...
Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office in the top of the Invalides, he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles, tap the barometer on his office wall, then call as he sat down at his desk "Et maintenant, ou est mon Weygand?" Loyal, capable General Max Weygand, member of the superior War Council, was always there. Despite the fact that he had been Chief Assistant, almost a second son to Marshal Foch since the outbreak of the war, General Weygand never dreamed of sitting down in the marshal...
Married. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned...