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...trackless, roadless waste, at a point halfway between the blue Mediterranean and the bleak Matmata Mountains, M. Daladier and his official escort reviewed a formidable parade of fighting men and equipment: white-robed Spahis, galloping on their small Arab horses, black Senegalese bands playing trumpets and fifes, camel corps with both officers and men barefoot, guiding their awkward mounts by pressing the big toe against the camel's neck. Curious nomadic Bedouins watched the strange proceedings...
...York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...
Mulhavey also said Miss Lamarr planned to accept and said the lucky Harvard man who will escort her was Walter Cass...
...regular full-dress regalia-black-plumed gold helmets, white crossbelts on scarlet tunics, long white gauntlets, blue pantaloons with yellow stripes, lances fluttering with red and white pennants* (see cut) outshone all the rest of the Garden's splendors. The fact that the Dragoons have been chosen to escort King George & Queen Elizabeth on their visit to Canada next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers...
...unnecessary precaution as was evidenced by the exclamation of one woman who was scanning the reams of political literature which was thrust into here hands by zealous admirers of one thing or another. One said "Defeat Wealthy Harvard's Brainchild--Plan E." "Hey, Pastl" she summoned her assiduous escort, "Who's dis guy Harvard...