Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches reported that at the coronation of the notorious "Mr. A." as Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (TIME, March 8) over 337,837 rupees ($125,000) was expended upon the hire and expenses of dancing girls, who were brought "from all over India" to entertain his guests...
Echoes of the so-called "typewriter scandal," precipitated when King George discovered that most of the typewriters used by the British Government are of U. S. manufacture (TIME, March 1), continued to be heard last week. It was revealed that the Prince of Wales possesses six U. S.-made "portables"; and yet both he and the Duke of York felt called upon to speak publicly in praise of British-made machines...
...extraordinary session of the League at Geneva. (See LEAGUE.) They repudiated both Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer, who have labored since the first of the year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...reasons," he ought to resume marital relations with Zizi or pay her 10 million francs-despite the fact that he is officially the husband of Princess Helen of Greece, and is actually residing at Paris in close proximity to one Magda Lupescu, who recently accompanied him from Milan. (TIME, March...
Plastiras. Onetime Dictator Plastiras, exiled foe and perpetual rival in conspiracy of Dictator Pangalos (TIME, March 1), turned up at Skoplje, Jugoslavia, and wandered out among its environs "to look for a villa." Several Jugoslavian policemen drifted out in the same direction. When Plastiras attempted to escape toward the Greek frontier they closed in and firmly escorted him back to Skoplje. The Jugoslavian authorities declared that they are offering to Colonel Plastiras "the hospitality due a political exile...