Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily won the election (TIME, May 21) without uttering a single campaign speech. More and more, as time goes on, he works through trusted henchmen, seemingly confident that Argentina's masses will remember that he is their man, the first "man of the people" to hold the Presidential Baton...
...Government House Dr. Irigoyen was greeted by the man whom he placed there in 1922 when his own first term expired, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear. Last week retiring President de Alvear surrendered his baton to Dr. Irigoyen and then the Presidential band of colors, into which is woven the figure of the rising...
...unlike Socrates, Dr. Meiklejohn prefers to be a philosopher before a small group of strained young faces, than before a half a thousand listless, far-away faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...
These heroes of the War, and these alone, received the gold-starred baton of a Marshal of France...
...mourning procession paced the battle charger of Marshal Fayolle, with bridle down and empty boots reversed in stirrups. Ten officers followed, bearing on velvet cushions the Marshal's baton, sword and blazing decorations seemingly numberless...