Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great Britain?") he parried with a gruff "Nothing doing...
Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...
Chefoo-where the hair nets come from -was the scene of lively doings last week. Away from this flourishing city in the Yellow Sea vamoosed its rightful defender, General Liu Chen-nien; and victoriously in marched dread Marshal Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, March 7, 1927). Within an hour Chefoo's terrified Chinese Chamber of Commerce had presented the marshal with $100,000 spot cash gold, in return for his promise not to issue his favorite order, "Loot...
...breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band of military adventurers...
...other words, the revolutionary situation in Nanking, last week, was so chaotic that scarcely anyone knew where they were at. One evening it was creditably reported that the General Staff had mutinied and deposed President Chiang Kaishek; but the very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief of the General Staff. He left behind him in jail the governor of Canton, who had earlier been reported executed. He denounced him, General Li, as "a traitor to the sacred cause of Nationalism!" Seemingly Li of Canton...