Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules, whereas any action in the metals salient was checked by the absence of General Reed. Even Field Marshal Simmons left his front-line headquarters for the rear. Democratic Adjutant General Walsh (of Montana) stormed: "I object to Saturday being made a day of leisure for some Senators and a day of work for others...
Today almost the only champion of the Deputies' rights against the whims of the Dictator is Speaker of the Sejm Ignacy Daszynski, the Civilian Marshal of Poland, a onetime friend but now foe of the "Military Marshal"?Pilsudski...
...Marshal Pilsudski was not caught napping. At ten minutes before gavel time his limousine swirled up to the door of the Sejm. Five minutes later came a tramping of feet. Ninety blue-grey Polish officers, belted, booted, spurred, bristling with smallarms, marched into the main lobby of the Sejm building
...here," answered the commanding officer, "to salute our leader, Marshal Pilsudski...
Quarter of an hour passed. The door of Marshal Pilsudski's anteroom banged. The Military Marshal stamped into the office of Civilian Marshal Daszynski...