Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexandra Sczerbinska Pilsudska is the second wife of Poland's swashbuckling Marshal and benevolent Dictator, Josef Pilsudski...
Since the stirring days when Pilsudski was engaged in clandestine Socialist activities, he has been assisted by the present Madame Pilsudska, a woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...present Mme. Pilsudska dwells principally at rural Sulejowek, 12 miles from Warsaw, where she provides a quiet soothing refuge to which her harassed and moody husband often flees. With her young daughters, Wanda and Hedwig, she assists the Marshal to prune his apple trees and tend his bees...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...
...Baron Holmes Sparrow '28, of Mattapoisett, was elected marshal for the Engineering School Commencement exercises at a meeting of all candidates for the S.M., S.B., and S.D. degrees held yesterday afternoon. Sparrow's duties will be to preside over the Commencement Exercises...