Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Eugene French, of Winchester, was elected First Marshal. French prepared at Worcester Academy and during his college career has been captain of the Freshman football team, and this year of the University eleven, the first to defeat Yale in six years, as well as being president of his class in its Freshman year, a stellar sprint man on the track team and president of the Student Council. His total of 210 votes for First Marshal is one of the largest ever recorded in a Senior Class election...
...resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...passionate climax of his address Marshal Feng boomed: "China has 400,000,000 people, yet we cannot resist the bullying of a nation with only a few scores of millions. Japanese Imperialism is comparable only to the ways of wolves and tigers. What with their gunboat policy and their heavy artillery sometimes we are treated worse than dogs...
Turning from foreign to domestic problems, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang concluded his memorable address thus...
Observers friendly to Marshal Feng noticed that he, with the potent inconsistency of greatness, has now turned his broad back upon the Russian Soviet Government which, two years ago, was furnishing him with most of his money, ammunition and supplies. It is an historic paradox that the Nationalist Party, which conquered China with Russian propaganda and Russian gold, is now absolutely estranged from Moscow and on the friendliest terms with U. S. business...