Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 of Albany, N. Y., was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1929 at a meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
...selecting Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commencement Marshal for 1929 the Alumni Association has made an eminently fitting choice. Prominent in undergraduate affairs and at one time President of the CRIMSON, Mr. Roosevelt has continued to take an active interest in Harvard since his graduation. From 1918 to 1924, years of special importance in the development of Harvard policy, he served as an Overseer of Harvard College...
...their first twenty-five years out of college attain the position which Mr. Roosevelt holds in the affection of his fellow-citizens. The Class of 1904 is peculiarly fortunate in being able to offer as Chief Marshal a man of his calibre...
Born in Kansas City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay...
...Christian members of the Cabinet and "Big Three" are President of China Chiang Kaishek, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan (TIME...