Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display or procession. The attendants will gather informally in the Faculty Room after arriving individually. The committee which arranged the installation consists of George R. Agassiz '84, President of the Board of Overseers; Thomas N. Perkins '91, senior member of the Corporation; and Phillip P. Chase '99, the University Marshal...
...ever boomed the guns of currency inflation last week on the Washington front. The dollar was down to 63? gold. Many a Wall Streeter thought this figure already discounted actual devaluation, doubted if direct inflation would boost prices appreciably or hold them up. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas, field marshal of the inflationary forces, was loosely threatening a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless there was a great outpouring of printing-press money. His polls of Congress showed a 20-to-1 sentiment in favor of quick inflation. Nevada's Senator Pittman tried to interest...
...Avenue chattered a smoky-tailed vanguard of motorcycle police. Out stepped spectacled Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the 2nd Corps Area and Marshal of the parade. Along came Administrator Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled...
...Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; the ship's designer; the man who superintended her construction; the commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic; and 43 other passengers, officers...
...week. The military rank of Nazi Goring, second most powerful man in Germany, was until last week just what it had been at the end of the War, Captain. His promotion, jumping him six full steps, came not from Adolf Hitler but from the President, old Field Marshal von Hindenburg (who took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg...