Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vice Admiral William Milburne ("Bubbles") James, still blond, still curly-headed, stood in the British Admiralty building in Whitehall to welcome, as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Royal Navy, high French and Belgian officers for one of the most important meetings since the War. As a result of the German Army's reoccupation of the Rhineland, Britain, France and Belgium were admitting to the world that they were preparing for war with Germany by holding a conference of their General Staff officers...
When the towering Scot, followed by his 6-ft. lady, stepped off the gangplank of the Strathmore, the white warships of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
...cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that both organizations have increased their audiences measurably, extended their seasons. The Philharmonic announced these facts proudly last week. Still many were surprised that Barbirolli's engagement...
...Club de Mille" whose members have their own clubroom and bar in the Palais des Sports. By this time he had achieved the unprecedented distinction of being made a member of the boxing boards of both England and France. He later acquired boxing rights at London's Royal Albert Hall and White City Stadium, two bullfight arenas in Madrid and Barcelona which he uses for boxing and wrestling, and became sports Tsar of the Continent...