Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah) and the low, consumer tariff army of Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons (North Carolina...
Bombing Attack. The freebooting ally of Marshal Simmons, General Borah of Idaho, leader of the Republican irregulars, opened the battle by leading a bombing attack on Manufacturing City. As his mighty bombers swept over the smoking chimneys, he first dropped propaganda on the citizens: "The total value of the manufactures imported to the United States in 1928 was less than 3.4% of the total domestic production of manufactured goods in the United States. We are now living practically under an embargo, so far as manufactured goods are concerned...
Appointed Marshal...
...graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1910, he received his S.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science in 1912, followed by the S. D. degree in 1914. During 1910-12 he was Secretary to the Corporation, and later assistant dean and acting University Marshal...
...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...