Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin, it came out last week, was escorted by Yagoda from Moscow to Leningrad to investigate Kirov's murder, now confessed to have been the work of Escort Yagoda & accomplices whose confessed main objective was to kill Stalin. Yagoda always personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else...
...detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort...
General Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection of Army barracks in the South of Ireland. He rode in an open touring car and was accompanied by a Rolls-Royce whippet armored car as escort. At Beal-Na- Blath, County Cork, he was ambushed. He immediately ordered his men to return the fire and led the attack on the ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that...
...Norma that night. To three other tenors went Mr. Longone. None of them knew the part. Frantically he telephoned to Manhattan's Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
With three police cars as escort, the "farmers" rolled into Eugene. Up Skinner's Butte charged a squad with pails of paint, daubing the University of Oregon's yellow cement ''O'' on the hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned...