Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place selected for Pennsylvania's new penitentiary for "hardened criminals," is a 3,000-acre-military reservation near Harrisburg which was abandoned last year by the National Guard. Its site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
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...Lyme, Conn., the National Guard had to stop its war games when neighbors complained the sham battles made too much noise...
Basis of the Italian plan was to do something quickly to restore Italy's battered military prestige. Santander, once the favorite yachting centre of the Basque Riviera, is less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order...
...stay behind them whether for professional or punitive reasons. Druggin (Barton MacLane), a bear cat for discipline but incapable of handling men, is replaced by Jameson, an army officer who tries to substitute psychology for solitary confinement. His first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged...