Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve thousand replies were received; when the ballots were counted the name of white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
...absence of F. A. Clark '29, who will be with the crew at Red Top throughout Commencement week, A. R. Sweezy '29 will act as third marshal at the Class Day and Commencement exercises net week, according to an announcement made last night by A. E. French '29, first marshal of the graduating class...
Clark, who is captain of the University crew, was elected third marshal by his classmates last December but will not be in Cambridge to fulfill his functions in that capacity next week. Sweezy, who has been chosen to fill the vacancy left by Clark is permanent class treasurer. He is a former president of the CRIMSON and also held office in several other undergraduate activities...
...Soong Dynasty" was a frightful term to use to the President of China's earnest young Republic. By it Marshal Feng meant the governing group which has ruled the Nationalist Party for so long; a group headed by Finance Minister T. V. Soong, President Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister of Commerce H. H. Kung. The last two are both married to sisters of Finance Minister Soong. Potent Mme. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun's widow, is another Soong...
...crafty "Christian General" pointed out that with Feng and the "Soong Dynasty" resigned, the last of the Chinese militarists would be removed from power and the Government could fall into the hands of civilians, one of Dr. Sun's most cherished ambitions. Further, wrote Marshal Feng, President Chiang had often promised to retire to private life after the final funeral of Sun Yat-Sen (TIME, June 3). Was this not the moment? In case the "Soong Dynasty" should not fall in with his altruistic scheme, Marshal Feng ordered his private train in readiness to carry him from the interior...