Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no way to get there, no cheap convenient way!" objected the Marshal. "We must build a subway." They told him that would take years?out of the question! He waxed warm; they too. At last the Marshal yielded...
...great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately flattering offer...
...billion francs ($30,000,000). They wanted to put the French Empire where it belongs and where it is not, namely on the world's mental map, where the British Empire is. The idea: a vast Colonial Exposition on a scale never before conceived. The offer: "Will you, Marshal Lyautey, take charge as Commissioner General...
...French International Colonial and Overseas Exposition has just been opened, on time, two months after Commissioner General Lyautey with his staff had personally journeyed by subway from the Place de I'Opera, hub of Paris, to the exposition gates. Time: 12 min. Nearly all the Marshal's victories have been like that, decisive, constructive (see below...
Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...