Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal Pétain, testy old War Minister and close to the "Cross of Fire," had made a scene at the next to last meeting of the Cabinet. When the six Radical Socialist Ministers, headed by M. Edouard Herriot, announced that they would resign, rather than support a three-month emergency credit to give Premier Doumergue time to put through his proposed reform of the Constitution (TIME, Nov. 12), lean, grizzled Marshal Pétain marched up to paunchy, pipe-sucking M. Herriot and hissed "Monsieur, you have committed a crime against France...
...Premier tried hardest to get Marshal Pétain, but the Marshal refused to stay on as War Minister. "I am old, I am tired, and I am no parliamentarian," said Pétain. But he approved Premier Flandin's second choice of brilliant General Louis Felix Thomas Maurin as War Minister...
Though hirsute Fascist underlings were reported in a barber's rush to become smooth-faced last week, Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of the few blackshirts who has ever talked back to Il Duce, remained bearded...
...made it the biggest boat in the Colombian Navy, she was made flagship and renamed the Cacuta. Last week the Cacuta lay at Philadelphia's South Wharves, awaiting $25,000 worth of overhauling. To her there came the staggering humiliation of being attached by a U. S. Deputy Marshal to secure a seaman's claim of $1,000 back wages against the Colombian Navy...
Seaman Robert Green of New York City had won his $1,000 claim before a U. S. District Court. The judge deputed Deputy Marshal Harry Baker to serve the papers on the Cacuta's captain. The marshal found the Colombian captain on the bridge one day last week. He turned out to be one J. R. Hodges, late of Mobile, Ala. An alert newshawk of the Philadelphia Record was on hand to record in dialect the conversation...