Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers of former Chief of Staff Peyton C. March will probably descend upon you in force for your omission of his name from the footnote at the bottom of p. 11, TIME, Aug. 9. If he was not a general then both my memory and my encyclopaedia have failed...
...recheck of the facts proves TIME correct. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing are the only permanent generals in U. S. history. Tasker Howard Bliss and Peyton Conway March served as temporary generals during the World War, were created full generals on the retired list by an act of Congress in 1930. Charles Pelot Summerall and Douglas MacArthur held the courtesy rank of general while acting as chiefs of staff. Present Chief of Staff General Malin Craig will drop back to his regular rank of major general when his term is up. According to War Department records, George Washington, although General...
This acquittal sharpened interest in the trial scheduled for this week, of the Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, fiery ex-U-boat commander arrested last March on "still more serious charges." Since Dr. Niemoller has long been the spearhead of the Confessional movement many Churchmen regarded the unexceptionable handling of Dr. Dibelius' trial as disingenuous window-dressing, wherein the Nazis deliberately threw a small fish back into the pond, while they went right ahead with their plans to land a whale...
Quickly organizing a march of protest, the parishioners streamed into the street. Police were soon on the spot, ordered them to disperse. When the marchers refused, 75 women, 40 men at the head of the procession were dragged off to police headquarters where their names were recorded, after which, according to police reports, they were released. Because this was the first mass demonstration on record against a Reich decree. Nazi bigwigs grew panicky. Fearing that there might be an even bigger demonstration outside the Court House while Pastor Niemöller was on the stand they discreetly postponed the trial...
Last week Warner Brothers released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. It is also one of the best shows. The Life of Emile Zola has an even greater claim to the attention of adult cinemaddicts because its star, Paul Muni, having won last March the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' award for the most distinguished performance of 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur), can be considered, at least until next March, the First Actor of the U.S. Screen...