Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retreat of Germany's stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht at The Hague Reparations Conference last week was epic, masterful...
...trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat...
...such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
...mere "Yes Man" to the Marshal, in 1920 he begged and obtained a chance to go to Poland, direct Poland's defense against Soviet invasion. On his arrival Russian troops were only 12½ mi. from Warsaw. Five months later the last defeated Soviet troops were in full retreat. In Paris, proud as a father, Marshal Foch gleefully applauded his success...
...MacDowell was really the heroine of the gambol. When Composer MacDowell died it was his wish that his home in Peterborough, N. H. be used as a retreat by U. S. creative artists. After his fatal mental collapse there was little money left and it was Mrs. MacDowell who undertook to execute his plan. Though frail and crippled, she gave concert and lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available...