Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They found "jointly responsible" for the collision the commanding officers of both ships-dead Lieut. Commander Roy K. Jones of the gored submarine and living Lieut. Commander John S. Baylis of the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding...
...posting of 300 policemen to guard other city officials' homes, especially Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's. Two families in the Thompson apartment building took good advice and moved...
Prohibition in 1928, as finally provided for in the bill passed last week by the bickering Representatives of the People, will cost about $28,000,000-13 millions for the Prohibition Unit, 15 millions for the U. S. Coast Guard. During the debate, Representative Mead had produced figures snowing that, while spending some 26 millions to make the U. S. dry last year, U. S. citizens spent some 26 millions importing liquor from Canada...
...Coal and Iron Police," badged and deputized by the Governor of Pennsylvania; uniformed, armed and paid by the operators. The Coal and Iron Police were first formed during the Civil War, to guard Northern mines from Southern raiders. During the present "civil war," some 4,000 Coal and Iron Police have been operating...
...guards ran through the circle of prisoners and separated the two men who were fighting. William Reid was panting and furious. "Red" Moran, seriously wounded, looked at the men around him with the amazed, pitiful expression of a man who has just learned a hideous secret. He lifted his hand and pointed at William Reid. "He stabbed me," Thomas Moran whispered to the guard...