Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square knapsacks of the French poilus were lightened last week of the Marshal's batons, which, said Napoleon, every French soldier carries. At a meeting of the French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before...
...more than a year a most doubtful ally of the Nationalist Government has been the so-called "Christian General," Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, holder of Peiping, Lord of the Chinese central government, owner of an enormous well-equipped private army...
...Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, member of the Harvard Corporation, Eliot Wadsworth '98, President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, will also be among those Boston members in attendance. William Tudor Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine, and an Alumni Marshal at the Harvard Commencement this year, will also be at Cincinnati. Henry C. Clark 'H, General Secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association and Executive Secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund, has already left for the gathering...
Thomas Woolstone Dixon 4M, of Brooklyn, New York, has been elected First Marshal of the graduating class of the Medical School, it was announced yesterday. Previous to his entrance into the Medical School, Dixon was a student in George Washington University...
...following men were chosen: William Potter Lage '30, of Suffern, New York; Theodore Hall, Jr. '30, of Cambridge; Barrett Hoyt '30, of Brookline; Stephen Pierce Duggan '31, of New York City: and Marshal Stearns, Jr. '31, of New Canaan, Connecticut...