Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additional candidates for any office below that of Marshall may, with their consent, be placed on the list of nominees for Marshal by a petition, of at least 25 eligible voters. This petition must be handed in to a member of the Committee before 7.45 o'clock Sunday night at the CRIMSON Building. In that case his name will be automatically taken off the ballot for the office for which he was originally nominated. Petitions for additional nominations to the offices must also be signed by 25 eligible voters and handed in to the Committee before 7.45 o'clock Sunday...
Hiller Innes '25, chairman of the committee, announced after the meeting that a list of nominees will be published next Friday, December 5. Nominations will be made for the offices of Marshal, Treasurer, Ivy Orator, Orator, Poet, Odist and Chorister...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
...chauffeur hurriedly put the shattered car into "third" and made off for the Residency, official home of His Excellency Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan...
Preceding him rode in one long, gorgeous procession the representatives of the City Guilds, the Army, Navy and Air Force, the fire brigade, countless bands, etc. Then came the City Marshal, "an official chosen for his handsomeness," on a fine, prancing horse. Among the thousands upon thousands of people who lined the streets to witness the show the usual comments at the expense of the Marshall were heard: " 'E don't 'arf fancy hisself, don't 'e," yelled a shrill female voice. "Chuck it, Liz," growled her young man. "Jus' look at 'is 'at," shrieked the damsel. The crowd looked...