Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the responsibility for building the Treaty Navy. He watched Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander in chief of the U. S. Fleet, sworn in as his successor. Then he turned to the congregated officers and said: "Gentlemen, I just want to say goodbye and to thank you for your loyal and cordial assistance...
What every correspondent and most loyal Netherlanders hoped to hear from the lips of Majesty was a name. All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia. Dutch rotogravures have pictured the curvesome Crown Princess beside one tall and royal Scandinavian sapling after another. Which is to be her Prince Consort, future Man-in-the-House to the Netherlands' excessively female Royal line...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...
Someone yelled "Counter revolution!" In a half-second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who must be storming the Casa Rosada ("Pink House:" executive mansion...
...Death stalked across Plaza de Mayo, the loyal revolutionary troops supposed that counter-revolutionaries had already captured the Casa Rosada! Scrambling wildly for cover, they sniped back at the machine gunners. But, with every man behind a corner, monument or bit of roof, heads cleared, the mistake was realized, firing ceased in front of the Pink House...