Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...robe festooned with miniver, had to go thirsty. He was standing just outside the House of Lords fidgeting with a black cocked hat. waiting to be inducted. A thin stream of dignitaries trickled towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused...
Eight of Red Russia's top-rank fighting men stood on trial last week in a small, bare courtroom before an array of judges including Marshal Semion Mikhailovich Budenny and Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, president of the Military Colegium of the Soviet Supreme Court. The eight...
...Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, until his demotion last month Vice Commissar for Defense, one of the greatest tacticians of the Red Army...
Promptly then the big gold star was ripped from the cap of Marshal Tukhachevsky, the four red pips from the collars of his colleagues, and all eight of them fell dead before the acrid volleys of a firing squad. Official Pravda wrote their obituary: "Dogs die like dogs. There is no place for such murderers in the Soviet scheme of things...
...Huston J. Banton, 1P.H., Washington; School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Regional Planning) Albert C. Koch, Jr. 3G.S.D., Cambridge; School of Business Administration: E. Howard Roorbach 2G.B., Cambridge; School of Engineerings Harold B. Gotaas, Vermillion, South Dakota; School of Education: William J. Crissy, Cambridge (Ed.D. marshal), and William Shapiro, Roxbury (A.M. in Teaching marshal...