Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Estimates placed the expected attendance at 30,000,000 visitors before the exhibition closes on December first. An advance guard of the many conventions expected appeared last week, when members of 25 Temples of the Mystic Shrine hove to in the lee of many a side-show booth...
Welcome. The Swedish Minister at Washington, the U. S. Minister to Sweden and J. Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...
...special "Air Service Smoker" tonight in West-morly 136 to mark the completion of a successful year and to honor several well known air service men of Boston and vicinity. The guests of honor will be Captain Horace Heison of the Army; Major C. H. Wooley, of the National Guard; Captain Christopher Ford, Captain Bartlett Beaman, both of the Army air force; Lieutenant Reginald D. Thomas commander of the Naval Air Base as Squantum; and Lieutenant Charles Green...
...Cadman Snubbed. Although Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, famed for his radioed advice on all manner of topics (TiME, Dec. 21), was onetime a chaplain for the New York National Guard, he disapproves of emphasis on things military. The other week he said so plainly and publicly, ignoring the fact that he was to be the commencement speaker at the New York Military Academy's graduation exercises. Last week his intended hosts wrote a curt note withdrawing their invitation...
Products of a new spirit of questioning rampant in undergraduate life, the journals of opinion strike an alien note, jarring to deans and presidents. Besides purveying news items they provoke student opinion on vital subjects and jealously guard the undergraduate interests...