Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
...Mukden to a point near the Chaoyang Monastery. Chinese soldiers, who enormously outnumbered the Japanese force, repulsed it after sharp fighting which lasted some 24 hours. By this time it was generally admitted that Major Ishimoto was still alive and the Japanese military announced that they would hold young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang at Peiping "personally responsible for the safety of Major Ishimoto...
Only 87 miles from Peiping at its seaport, Tientsin, is a powerful Japanese garrison. Tersely the Japanese Commander threatened the young Marshal thus: "If there are clashes between the Japanese Army and the forces of Marshal Chang in Jehol then the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will have no other course but to attack Peiping...
...favorite dress of King George is that of Admiral of the Fleet." his valet Hewlett has said, mournfully adding, "But the dress in which His Majesty most frequently appears is that of Field Marshal...
After the close of business June 30, officers & clerks of each & every one of the 6,800 national banks began to marshal blunt columns of Arabic numerals for which U. S. Comptroller John William Pole was anxiously waiting in Washington. Though it was the first call he had issued this year, nearly all large banks had voluntarily published statements at the end of March. But no one knew better than Comptroller Pole the limited value of these statements in estimating the soundness of the general banking situation. Of all the assets listed by a bank only the items "Cash...