Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator Josef Pilsudski, moody and perverse, scorned even to appear before the recent session of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) which had risen last week for the holidays. Then, impulsively, Marshal Pilsudski decided late one night last week that he wanted to talk to the politicians after...
...Marshal to desire is to act. The Sejm was not in session, but there might be some politicians skulking in the Parliament building. There were. A committee, sparsely attended, was mulling drowsily over the War Department appropriations in the budget. Suddenly the door flew open. A big, fierce-mustached man, clad in an old faded uniform, strode in. He sat down at the committee table, folded his arms, scowled, sniffed the air contemptuously, said nothing...
...Marshal Pilsudski," ventured the committee chairman at last, "do you wish to make a statement...
Jagged Edges. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled; and the secret training of young men for military service has not entirely ceased.) The Allied Council of Ambassadors, administering the Versailles Treaty, telegraphed M. Briand at Geneva that they would only indorse the substitution of League control for military control if the German Foreign Minister would give positive assurance...
...exactly three-ten the doors were opened to the public which rapidly filled the few remaining places. The avenue before the hall was cleared and at three twenty-five automobiles containing President Eliot, President Lowell, Chief Justice Taft, Justice Sanford, President Angell, Governor Cox and their escorts arrived. Marshal Hubbard, First Marshal of the Senior class, represented the students of the University in escorting the guest of honor...