Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars to provide the mobility that Polish campaigns demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis as the Poles. First casualty occurred when Lieut. Graves flew the wings off his Albatross during a review for bushy-browed Marshal Pilsudski, plummeted to his death in the midst of Lwow...
...that he has "consented to be transferred to some other Chinese province." The disputed revenues go to Governor Han of Shantung, but he does not get Chefoo. It passes into the hands of the so-called North Chinese Navy which has held Tsingtao for some time and belongs to Marshal Chang Jr., son of the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang...
Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...
Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...
...received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galliéni was posthumously created a Marshal of France...