Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawan, noting all the excitement, suggested that the city should make a real show of it. He proposed that the plans for a motorcycle escort be abandoned, that the President be conducted wherever he went by Royal Canadian Mounties on horseback. Everyone thought it was an admirable idea. Mountie bosses said: "We'd like nothing better, but we haven't got the horses...
...French Canada. He was one of the first Roman Catholic chaplains to volunteer for service overseas in the first weeks of the war, in which he rolled up a distinguished record. In 5½ years overseas, he took the route marches of the famed "Van Doos" (the Royal 22nd Regiment) in stride, spent nine months in the lines in Italy, then almost a year in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colonel Roy finished the war as chief Roman Catholic padre. Dispatches mentioned his "extremely courageous conduct"; he received the Order of the British Empire...
...afternoon began with cricket on the playing fields of Eton, but what everyone had come for was the historic "procession of boats," which lasted on into evening under the red glare of rockets. As boat after boat passed the Royal Enclosure where the Duke of Gloucester (an Old Etonian) sat with his royal nieces, the schoolboy crews stood with glistening, uplifted oars in salute. Nobody spilled, and Princess Elizabeth sent her congratulations to the Captain of the Boats...
...King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...
...World War I, Gulbenkian wangled an oil concession for all of Iraq for the British, German and Dutch interests which formed the Turkish Petroleum Co., now Iraq Petroleum. They rewarded Gulbenkian with his 5% interest. In 1928, when Standard and Socony were admitted, all the partners-including the French, Royal Dutch-Shell, Anglo-Iranian and Gulbenkian-signed the "Red Line" agreement to share & share alike in any new exploitation of ex-Ottoman Empire territory. Later, he fell out with Deterding. Reportedly, Gulbenkian trimmed him so much in bear raids on Shell stock that the British government finally stepped...