Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands full six feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
Recently the major northern cities of Peking and Tientsin were captured by Feng's troops (TIME, June 18, 25); but last week he ostentatiously eschewed the role of Conqueror. With a gesture that smacked of authentic greatness the Broad Bronzed Marshal left a part of his victorious forces in the field and modestly withdrew to Honan Province, central China...
...182.Of Tientsin's former militarist masters the last to evacuate was blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...
...Statesmen thought that the Nationalist Declaration will lead to negotiations of the very largest world import, IF, and only if the vast and various armies and "Nationalists" populations are now able to calling achieve a work themselves ing solidarity. Such professed National ists as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who has a personal army of 195,000 men, are capable of resuming the status of regional dictators they have held in the past...
...confused with and not related to: 1) The great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, recently dictator at Peking, subsequently bombed in Mukden, Manchuria, and rumored to have died last week; or 2) Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the War Lord, and superior officer of Marshal Chang Tsung-chang...