Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the short service within the church was concluded, ten tall Coldstream Guardsmen bore the coffin on their shoulders to the gun carriage; and it was drawn at a walking pace to Wolferton Station, two miles away, where a funeral train waited to carry it to London...
...locomotive draped in black drew the funeral train to London and, as it was desired to avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered into King's Cross, and although all haste was made in transferring the coffin to the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace, where the body was to rest over night, a crowd of some 1,500 persons gathered before the auto-hearse before the royal motors could be got under...
...Bailey," famed London bar of justice, the first skirmish in "Britannia's war on the Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2) ended last week when twelve prominent Communists were sentenced to jail by Mr. Justice Swift, after a jury had taken but 20 minutes to find them guilty of conspiracy on three counts: 1) uttering and publishing seditious libels; 2) violating the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797; 3) seducing the armed forces of the Empire from their duty...
...London Foreign Minister Chamberlain let slip a reminiscence or two concerning the famed steamboat sail on Lago Maggiore which was taken during the Locarno Conference by the chief plenipotentiaries (TIME, Oct. 19, INTERNATIONAL...
...conclusion, the Chancellor reiterated his solemn promise (TIME, Nov. 26) that the Cabinet would resign as soon as the Locarno Pacts should be signed at London, in order that President von Hindenburg may secure the formation of a new and, it is hoped, a stronger Government than the present one. It was only by making this promise that Dr. Luther secured the Socialists' votes for the Treaties. They of course hope to be well represented in the new Cabinet...