Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That students of the Harvard University be voted into the officers of King, President, Marshal, Speaker, Jester, and the following officers. The officer Britannia must be a coed, and her knights are as follows: Sir Amadorr, Sir Homodorr, Sir Fedelidorr, Sir Paleodorr, Sir Florodorr, Sir Animadorr, and Sir Lexidorr. The officers Columbia must also be a coed, and her knights are as follows: Officer Diodorr, Officer Geodorr, Officer Astrodorr, Officer Philosodorr, Officer Heliodorr, Officer Logosodorr, and Officer Phrenodorr. The Lady Legend Keeper and seven Lady Officers who are readers in the Temple ought also to be coeds. That "The Temple...
Chinese too had a New Deal last week. The entire Peiping Government of North China was reshuffled so completely that its Jack of Clubs, the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, vanished from the pack. From Central China came the dealer, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Carrying with him the portable powers of Life & Death, he roared north, preceded and followed by trainloads of Chinese soldiers who had actually been paid, possessed rifles, ammunition and such expensive luxuries as machine guns and bombing planes...
...smart to fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese...
Shades of Chang. Among the few defunct persons who are kept and will long remain in China's memory is Young Marshal Chang's dread, great father, Old Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent...
...towering rage, young Marshal Chiang denounced Fugitive Tang as a "traitor to China," ordered his instant arrest if & when caught. Forgetting that he himself swore only a few weeks ago to defend Jehol to the last-as did the Chinese Nanking Government on the pledged word of Acting Premier & Finance Minister T. V. Soong (TIME, Feb. 27)- the Young Marshal tried to blame everything on the Chinese soldiers he had just shut out of China...