Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mihai Viteazul' (Michael the Brave), which was created in 1916 and corresponds to our Victoria Cross. . . . M. Golovan came to the funeral of King George as a member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained...
What started Mrs. Rockefeller buying modern art was the famed Armory Show of 1913, held in Manhattan's 69th Regiment Armory, which introduced modern French painting to the U. S. President and guiding spirit of the Armory Show was the gentle and reserved Arthur B. Davies, painter of ethereal nudes, wearer of excruciatingly stiff collars. Artist Davies was a great & good friend of Miss Lizzie Bliss. Before the exhibition closed he had persuaded Miss Bliss to buy a Renoir, two Degas and two Redons. Through her friend Mrs. Rockefeller also became interested in modern art, finally began...
...only horse cavalry but some of the Empire's choicest and most picturesque infantrymen were also ordered mechanized, including a battalion each from the famed Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Scots Guards, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment...
...cattleman, and the son of a cattleman, Juan Vincente Gomez first appeared on the Venezuelan political scene 43 years ago when at the age of 35 he came tearing out of the Andean foothills at the head of a regiment of hard-riding gauchos to support with his neighbor, Cipriano Castro, the government of President Aldueza Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices...
...long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged on Fort Worth, Tex. last week to see Southern Methodist play Texas Christian felt sure that the winner of this, perhaps the season's most spectacular game, would get Stanford's bid. The Southwest Conference, now embracing six Texas colleges and the University...