Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barrett Wendell Jr. '02 of Chicago, an Overseer of Harvard College, has been chosen Chief Marshal of the Alumni for the 1927 Commencement exercises...
Good "Papa" Joffre, victor at the Marne, Marshal of France, sat down last week with twelve of the 39 other "Immortals" of the French Academy to give the advice of an old soldier upon what new words should be included in the French language and how the definitions of old ones might be clarified. Beside Joseph Jacques Joffre sat that other great Marshal and "Immortal" Ferdinand Foch. Men of the sword, they were silent while the scholarly academicians debated the rules of pencraft...
...Marshal sat down amid a hush. Bobby is evidently still dear to him, for his head sank upon his breast and he did not look up at first when Marshal Foch rose smilingly to relate an anecdote...
Janitors were routed out. Feverishly they put the great hall of the Sejm in shape for a meeting. Meanwhile jangling telephones roused Deputies from their beds, brought them scurrying. When all was ready Marshal Pilsudski strode in, obviously in the best of humors. Mounting the tribune he made one of those booming patriotic speeches beloved of Poles. His major theme: "Conditions in Europe at the present time do not warrant the abolition of armaments, and so long as there is the necessity for an army we might as well have a good...
Amid general enthusiasm the Budget Committee then announced that they favored the Marshal's proposal to spend one-third of the revenues of the State on the army. The pleasure of the Deputies at Marshal Pilsudski's bid for their support was evident. The magnetism of his personality sufficed to overcome their resentment at such actions on his part as his sending (TiME, Nov. 15) a detachment of soldiers to march 'round and 'round the Parliament Building to prove his supremacy. As dawn broke upon last week's midnight meeting enough Deputies had collected...