Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty King Ferdinand, long invalid and often sick to the point of death, made a dramatic gesture on the station platform at Bucharest, as he entrained to pass a period of recuperation, last week, at his hunting castle at Scrobesti...
While the train waited, King Ferdinand took Premier General Alexander Averescu by the arm and publicly besought him to do everything which would make possible the formation of a "National Coalition Cabinet" strong enough to bulwark Rumania in the event of the sovereign's sudden death. Since the first thing which Premier Averescu would have to do to bring this about would be to resign, his swart face darkened, and some reporters claimed that he did not reply to the King's appeal...
...matter is obviously delicate. Poland and Russia have not recently enjoyed cordial relations, and unfortunately M. Voikoff seems to have been an influential worker for a better amity. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo is recalled, and the prospect of war, if not imminent, seems at least possible. The Soviet is not enjoying success, the diplomatic rupture with England and the difficulties in the Far East have not made matters easy for the Russian government, and reports from Moscow hint that popular feeling regards the assassination as part of a concerted campaign against the Soviet...
Nearly 500,000 men, women and children lined the streets to see the ambassador-conqueror on his way to the city's official reception, on the day when Marshal Ferdinand Foch said to him: "Come right next to me and stand very straight, so that the whole world can see-that you are bigger than I am." Captain Lindbergh blushed, crouched...
...Passiten, Germany, it was a nice day for gliding?plenty of gusts of wind, no rain. So Ferdinand Schulz established a new world's record by keeping his glider in the air for 14 hours, 8 minutes...