Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investiture. During the afternoon which followed the death of Ferdinand, a smart cavalcade of the Household Cavalry trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced...
...hundred U. S. citizens of Polish blood arrived in Warsaw last week and were received in audience by the "National Hero" and "Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...Marshal Joffre, to many smart, shallow people is "just a fat man who was lucky. But solid citizens still believe in him. They showed their faith when the franc was tottering (TIME, May, 3, 1926) by subscribing 19,000,000 francs to the Joffre Save the Franc Fund. Last week the final scene in that impressive drama was acted at Paris...
...burning Marshal Joffre was represented by an aide, Major Desmazes who arrived briskly at the Mint last week, with several bearded senators. A blast furnace intended for melting silver was started, and into it workmen shoveled paper which had once been valued at the par equivalent of $4,000,000. The blazing heat and tedious length of this ceremony were deemed by physicians unsuitable to the health of massive Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, aged...
Meanwhile Burgomaster Seitz, seeing the police helpless, was able to marshal 2,000 reservist soldiers of the so-called Republican Guard. Resolute, these impromptu troops