Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
Wallace Russell Harper, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was elected First Marshal of the Class of 1930 by an overwhelming majority. He prepared for Harvard at the Ottumwa High School, and during his college career has been stellar fullback on the football team, a member of the basketball squad, and president of his class when a Sophomore...
James Elmer Barrett, of Leominster, was elected Second Marshal of the class. A graduate of Worcester Academy, he was a letterman on the football team for three years, and captain this fall, leading Harvard to its second victory in the last two seasons...
...MARSHAL Bernard Barnes Wallace Russell Harper Gardner Lothrop Lewis James Elmer Barrett Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr. Thomas Frothingham Mason Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey William Potter Lage Josiah Warren Potter FOR TREASURER John Cross II Arthur Lithgow Devens James Roosevelt FOR ORATOR Gerald Wallace Harrington Robert Hayden Jones Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg FOR CHORISTER Bernard David Hanighen William Frost Mann Charles Matthew Underhill James Lindsay Ware FOR IVY ORATOR Edward Trumbull Batchelder Albert Goodwill Churchill FOR POET Douglas Payne Adams Robert Meader Easton Theodore Hall, Jr. Frederick William McNear, Jr. Harrison McGowan Parker FOR ODIST Robert Swain Morison Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene
...Devout Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and myself drew the Franco-German...