Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski took calm note of the riots as fresh evidence of the unpopularity in Poland of the pro-German policy of Foreign Minister Josef Beck. It was Beck who sold to Dictator Pilsudski the ten-year Polish-German non-aggression pact of Dictator Hitler (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week Pilsudski was busy jamming through Poland's long-impotent Parliament constitutional changes making the dictatorship still more absolute. "One thing at a time!" is the crusty old Marshal's motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time...
...Captain Eden's train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...
...afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station. There amid jostling notables waited "The Man From Tasmania." famed Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia who has restored the finances of that spendthrift dominion...
...slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after a 25-year reign, and Pius IX who set a record by ruling 32 years, dying in 1878 aged...
...matter how often or how sincerely Mr. Whitney protests his desire to cooperate with Government regulations, his critics feel that the public will never be convinced that the field marshal of the spectacular fight against regulation has really had a change of heart. The quickest way, say they, to restore "public confidence" (i.e. public trading and more commissions) is to oust Mr. Whitney and his old-order administration...