Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When balloting for the Senate was complete, Marshal Pilsudski was found to have an even greater plurality of supporters than in the Sejm. No communist senator was elected...
Outrageously high-handed measures were countenanced by Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski during the general election completed last week. At the same time, however, he could point to an impartial report showing that Poland has prospered vastly since his swashbuckling seizure of power (TIME...
...Rural constituencies of ignorant Roman Catholics were treated to a cinema in which the Virgin Mary was shown celestially aiding the Marshal and by implication favoring his party...
Results. Chosen were both a new Sejm (Chamber) and a new Senate. In the former Marshal Pilsudski obtained roughtly twice as many Deputies as are adherent to any other group, but even so his cohorts number not quite one-third of the Sejm as a whole. The great confusion of party lines made it difficult for even the Marshal to count his Deputies with exactness, but he claimed 150 out of a Sejm of 474. The only trend discernible among the other parties was a leftward shift which virtually undermined the formerly potent Nationalist bloc and slightly swelled the ranks...
Died. Field Marshal Armando Diaz, 66, in Rome...