Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiesbaden in the early evening the 82-year-old Field-Marshal showed his only sign of strain. He excused himself from watching hundreds of schoolchildren enact the jubilation of the Elbe, the Voder, the Danube and several other German rivers at the liberation of "Their Sister, the Rhine...
...gardens of the once Imperial City at Peking a Chinese band groaned and squeaked last week. Delighted by this music, a huge crowd gathered to watch the formalizing of a "government"' created some weeks ago when Marshal Yen Hsi-shan simply announced that he is "President...
...assassins of Cabinet Ministers. This exception was especially inserted to prevent the return to Germany of great Matthias Erzberger's assassins, Schultz and Tillessen who, after murdering him on Aug. 26. 1921 escaped to Hungary. It was Herr Erzberger who signed the terms of Armistice handed him by Marshal Foch and became undeservedly "The Best Hated Man in Germany." As Chancellor of the Exchequer directly after the War, he wrested his country's railways from the numerous German states, established and coordinated the national railway of the Reich, today a model of speed and punctuality...
...nation's confidence in law has been shaken and Parliament has been silenced," declared a manifesto adopted unanimously by the Cracow mass meeting. "For four years the will of the Dictator, Marshal Pilsudski, has been imposed upon succeeding Cabinets and upon the President himself. . . . The nation must mobilize in defense of Freedom. . . . Ignatz Moscicki should resign...
Ignatz Moscicki (who was for a time a Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...