Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps no old man is so young as Marshal Ferdinand Foch. At 75, and after shouldering burdens at least as great as those which have fallen upon any other mortal, he remains unscathed of soul, brisk in thought and manner. Americans remember him as the Generalissimo who drove through their cities, after the War, clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend...
...Beta Kappa Society announced the election of eight Juniors, 22 Seniors, and four Magna Cum Laude men to its roster last night. The appointment of Lenson Arnold Weissberger '27 of New York City to the position of First Marshall and George Thomas Major '27 of Easthampton to the Second Marshal's office completed the electoral activities of the honorary group for the fall...
...just been assured by Polish monarchists assembled near Nieswiez on the estate of Prince Albrecht Radziwill that Poland needs a monarch. The Marshal, impulsive, quick as a Bengal tiger to pounce on what he desires, surprised everyone by returning to Warsaw without actually taking steps to order a crown...
With playful malice he issued a decree that all members of the Sejm must stand during the reading of whatever proclamations he may send to them. The Deputies immediately expressed indignation, and indicated their refusal to ratify the decree unless Marshal Pilsudski would agree to come and read his own proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt...
...antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal Printzkiold...