Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rules governing admission to the Commencement Day exercises, to be held this year on June 24, were made public yesterday by Professor John Warren '96, University Marshal. On this day, the Yard will be closed to the general public, and only members of the Governing Board of the University, Officers of Instruction and Administration, students, and alumni will be admitted. The Johnston, Meyer, McKim, and Dudley gates will be the only ones through which access to the Yard...
...Marshal's rescuers sped to succor him, he, adroit, parleyed with the Nationalist mob. The soldiers came. Pilsudski saw and conquered. While the Nationalists fled, the soldiers stayed to cheer, to work themselves into a frenzy in which they demanded that Pilsudski lead them to Warsaw, overturn the Cabinet, free Poland of scalawags...
Events poured like a torrent from that decision.* Within a few hours the Marshal's throaty telephone commands brought regiment after regiment at the double. As Pilsudski, eyes aflame, tugging at his drooping mustache, neared Warsaw, President Wojciechowski, personally commanding a troop of soldiers still loyal to the Government, barred his way at the entrance to a long bridge. Imperious Pilsudski demanded the resignation of the Witos Cabinet, the formation of a Cabinet largely Socialist. Since the President's troops were outnumbered, he could offer no more defiance than to refuse the demand, hastily retreat to the Belnedere...
Later, the resignations of President Wojciechowski and the entire Witos Cabinet were brought to Warsaw by a priest, the Rev. Tokarzewski, and delivered to Marshal Pilsudski. Completely victorious, he proclaimed...
...which he constitutionally became upon the resignation of President Wojciechowski. M. Rataj then called in Casimir Bartal (Laborite) as Premier, and he promptly installed Pilsudski as Minister of War. Former Premier Count Skrzynski was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. The rest of the Cabinet were not announced. Said the Marshal to a U. S. reporter: "It all happened like lightning...