Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be an initiation dinner early in April at the Harvard Club in Boston. The present officers of the Phi Beta Kappa, here in charge of initiating the "Junior Eight," are Elmer R. Best '36, First Marshal, and Robert H. Rawson...
...emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio came the Battle of Enderta and the capture of Amba Aradam (12 miles) with Italian boasts that the Ethiopians under Ras Mulugheta were "in headlong rout" (TIME...
They still were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...
After seizing Amba Aradam, the Marshal threw every soldier he could spare into Tembien Province, to the west of his main advance. There his right flank was being menaced by two of Ethiopia's greatest generals, the wily Ras Seyoum and Ras Kassa. If they could be annihilated, the world would be in a mood to agree that "the Ethiopians are licked!" Politically such a world opinion would do Italy the most good if it coincided with this week's arrival in Geneva of Captain Anthony Eden of Great Britain and his League colleagues to decide whether...
...cataclysmic was Marshal Badoglio's perfectly timed triumph that New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, one of the clearest-headed correspondents at Italian Military Headquarters, was able to cable his paper as follows...