Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of 5,000 U. S. Jewish veterans a cablegram was despatched to Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby: "Thirteen years ago we stood on the battlefields of Palestine under your leadership, prepared to sacrifice our lives for the redemption of the Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...
...Burr Scholarship is presented by friends of Francis H. Burr '09 in his memory. Burr was the first marshal of his class as well as president of his Freshman Class. He was on the University football team four years, being elected its captain in 1908. He also played on the baseball team in his second year and was on the track squad as well as a good polo player. Burr was also a member of numerous clubs and organizations...
...have his silky mustache trimmed, Joseph Jacques Césaire Marshal Joffre entered his favorite Paris barber shop last week, wearing only one ribbon, that of the Médail le Militaire...
...Marshal, and how are you?" beamed his barber...
Instantly Papa bristled. He too had to fight under the irascible Tiger of France. "Foch," he snapped, "was right! Clemenceau-" but the Marshal did not finish. He knew a newshawk was listening. He has vowed that his memoirs shall not be published until after he is dead. Therefore he slipped back into his character of "Papa," concluded urbanely as snippets of whiskers fell all around, "Yes, Foch was right, but [shrugging his sheet-covered shoulders] soldiers and politicians are not always made by the Good God to get along with each other...