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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press about them. Both came from Britain. One was from the officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bertie, May and Elizabeth | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died in 1905 he had given the Institute $1,000,000, as well as his brain, his crippled right forearm and hand, including the fingernails ("a desirable specimen of gunshot ankylosis"), his bloody Civil War sword which he preferred never to have cleaned, and several other relics including his baby caps and snuffboxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with the guard blind drunk behind him, the guard was changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ennry | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Like Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which broke Japanese barriers erected in captured sectors of the Chapei slums, carried Chinese screaming with triumph into mastery of numerous crooked alleyways and shattered streets. Japanese and Chinese machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Again Liberty Bonds | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Consequently, state and federal courts have been very reluctant to upset declarations of martial law by state governors Judges, wisely recognize that the particular decisions about emergencies must usually be left to the Executive who wields the sword, without any control or advice from sedentary scholars on the benches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAFEE OUTLINES USE OF MARTIAL LAW IN RHODE ISLAND | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

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