Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drums will be piled on a platform which will have been erected in the centre of the parade. The new colors will be laid against the drums and the clergy will process out and take post on the west side of the platform, facing east. The King, who in the meanwhile will have dismounted, will also move out to the platform. . . . The consecration service (which will be amplified) will then proceed, after which His Majesty will address the troops. . . . His Majesty will then ride back to Buckingham Palace at the head of the troops who will march in column...
Before he died insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group...
...Universal Oil Products arose to plague a man who had also hoped to share the wealth created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their hearts. To establish its claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed $100 per day, and he managed to drag out the proceedings for 999 days...
Dear to the heart of Publisher William Randolph Hearst is the notion that he can thwart and confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however...
...years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would be as uninformative a process as to announce that a breakfast food was compounded simply of bran, malt, sugar and salt. The important thing is what it tastes like...