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Imagine a drove of king lions, all supreme in their native wild, all meeting on terms of equality. Imagine, then, a congress of Chiefs of Police...
...open carriage the King and Queen, accompanied by Prince Henry, drove from Buckingham Palace to Wembley Park, attended by the four Indian orderly officers. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the roads, cheering madly...
...Prince was received by the Governor General and Lady Athlone, his uncle and aunt,* by Premier Hertzog and his Ministers and a vast concourse of the distinguished, of which the most outstanding was ex-Premier General Jan Smuts (TIME, Apr. 27). As he drove through the city, flags were waved, flowers thrown, white, black and yellow people cheered in a strange assortment of languages; children sang. Many were in the crowd who had traveled hundreds of miles to be present at the Prince's arrival and many of these were the Boer veldt farmers,, some even hailing from...
Delaware River. Up and down the Philadelphia estuary, Lieutenants Kyle and Schildauer last week drove the PN9 from 10:22 one morning to 2:58 the next afternoon-a total of 28 hr., 36 min., making about 2,300 miles. Their faces badly wind-bitten, the crew . had been so deafened by the roar of engines they could hardly hear the eager greetings when they landed. They had completed the test for the Honolulu trip...
After lunch, the King drove up the Champs Élysées, lined with thousands of people who cheered lustily and shouted Vive Georges Cinq, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which lies under the Arc de Triomphe...