Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of York. It was Edward, Prince of Wales, who laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building at Canberra six years ago. This month it is Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, who has arrived with his Duchess in Australia after a tour of New Zealand (TIME, March 21, 28), to open the new Australian Parliament...
...famed Manhattan lawyer Samuel Untermyer reached Bangkok, Siam, recently, on the world cruise of the S. S. Belgenland he was greeted with no lilting stanzas, but rather by an imperial "command" to appear at the Siamese Court and be received in audience by perky little King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March 8, 1926) and his placid, portly Queen...
...France must help me-must!" Thus, at Peking, to a French correspondent, thundered last week the great barbaric War Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thumping a table top with the hilt of his sword, Chang continued: "The advance of the Chinese Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with their military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With...
Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
...long ago engineers made smoke in the Holland vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river to test the all-important ventilating system. The announced result: complete success (TIME, March 28). But last week, Chairman John F. O'Rourke of a special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation begged to differ. He announced that the committee had given "serious study and conference to this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest...