Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pale but courageous, as the children of a Latin American president have need to be Sons Carlos & Luis and Daughter Maria rushed back the way they had come Though machine guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
...Guard, 1,600; Navy yards. 4,700: Customs, 640; Commerce Department. 500; Public Health Service, 500; Interstate Commerce Commission, 600; Government Printing Office, 400; Internal Revenue. 580. Air mail contracts were being sliced 25%. 5,000 route miles eliminated.* The Army was ready to let out 5,000 civilian arsenal employes. Charlotte, Denver, Des Moines, El Paso, Galveston, Indianapolis. Milwaukee, Mobile, Salt Lake City and Wilmington lost Department of Commerce district trade offices. Behind all this general shakedown in Government service lay these cold facts: ¶ The 1933 budget deficit was $1,786,000,000 (receipts...
...Passed a bill introduced by West Virginia's Smith to sell the Navy's arsenal at South Charleston, W. Va.; sent it to the Senate...
...Springfield he laid a wreath on Lincoln's tomb and returned to the Arsenal to sit on the same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...
...That morning citizens of Harper's Ferry, Va. woke to sinister rumors. John Brown had captured the arsenal, cut the telegraph wires, proclaimed a slave insurrection. But no slaves came flocking in to him. Militia surrounded the engine house where Brown's tiny "army" made their last stand. U. S. Marines finished off the shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired...