Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law to 166 against, enought to defeat it. The Reichstag is almost sure to pass the law when it reassembles a fortnight hence. At Doorn a gentleman characterized by U. S. correspondents as "the ex-Kaiser's court marshal" said that there was no likelihood that Wilhelm would take advantage of his temporary freedom...
...Genro is a political institution without Western precedent. Possessing no constitutional authority but politically active until 1922, it then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still...
Easier in mind than he had been for months was President Chiang Kai-shek last week. Painlessly, tactfully, he removed the discordant figure of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General," from the harmony of Chinese politics...
Died. Father Germain Foch, 75, of Paris, Jesuit Priest, brother of the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch; in Paris...
Three state governors will be among those present. They are Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York; Governor W. Tudor Gardiner '14, of Maine; and Governor Frank G. Allen, of Massachusetts, who will attend ex officio, Governor Roosevelt is Chief Marshal of the Alumni and as such will lead the procession to Sever and take an active part in all the exercises. Governor Gardiner will serve as Marshal of his class...