Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Flying Club has entered its third year as a full fledged organization with its own airplane. Started on March 12, 1925, by R. H. Jackson '26, in its short life it has already shown that it deserves a place among the University extra curricular activities. The organization was incorporated by Raymond Baldwin...
...Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd** when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...
...west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless...
...education that is "higher" in fact as well as in name, last week made a contribution to the art of inter-class warfare. The sophomore and freshman officers drew up an agreement that "there shall be no kidnaping or fights between groups of men before noon on Saturday, March 19." Class banquets, which at Johns Hopkins are held secretly and later "discovered" and raided, might be held only within a specified period. And "in the event a person is kidnaped and kept away from home all night a notice of his safety shall be sent to those with whom...