Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much has been written about Marshal Foch in the War; how when he became 65 years of age in 1916, he was retired, as is usual with French Army officers of his rank and age; how, a year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare...
...position today is in the nature of a technical adviser to the Allied Governments on military matters arising out of the Versailles Treaty and as such he is Chairman of the Inter-Allied Military Commission. Although he is in active service (as are all Marshals of France) at the age of 73, he is not Commander-in-Chief of the French Army; that honor belonging to Marshal Petain...
...born such in 1906. At the age of two, he ascended the throne, became what the Chinese used to call the Son of Heaven, or, plainly, Emperor of China. On becoming Emperor, he took the personal name of Hsuan Tung and after his abdication in 1912, he called himself Henry in admiration of Henry VIII of England. Hence, journalists have naturally referred to him as "Harry...
James Simpson. He furnishes the funds. He, aged 50, is President and General Manager of Marshall Field & Co., great Chicago merchants. Born at Glasgow, he came to the U. S. at the age of six, had a brief education and, when he was 17, became a clerk in the cashier's office of Marshall Field & Co. Within a year the discerning Marshall Field had made him his confidential clerk. At Mr. Field's death, Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry...
...Young man," said Field, "when I was your age I was getting only $3 a week...