Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field '26, Secretary of the Senior class, will make a short address. M. A. Cheek '26, First Marshal of the Senior class, will preside over the Smoker...
...gilded coach fairytalewise from the Palace of Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke...
...unlikely event of a commercial slump, the majority party would be a handy scapegoat. Clever politicians could then marshal the general discontent into a demonstration against the shadowy ethics of the aluminum case. An even more vital grievance can be found in the presidential practice of packing the supposedly non-partisan Tariff Commission with advocates of protection. As a means of holding the present elephantine majority, Republican prayers for prosperity would be more effective than abstract assertions of party rectitude...
From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
...made by "Poles" to organize a government among themselves. Not until after the War, however, did they succeed, under the benevolent eye of the Allies, in getting the area now known as Poland officially recognized as an autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council...