Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon Madam Perkins learned, however, that her anxiety was needless. In the small hours of the morning Governor Frank Murphy had arrived in Flint. "This is not going to be a brawl," he announced, and issued a call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty...
Back at the plane, Pilot Lewis regained his senses, dragged himself, gun in hand, to guard the mail. Two passengers revived unhurt, began aiding the others. Stewardess Esther Jo Connor, despite a broken ankle, did what she could for her passengers, all but two of whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor...
Faced by Skiddy Von Stade's eight goals and abetted by a pony's clever footwork Harvard's best Varsity polo team in more than a decade swept to a 17 1-2 to 14 victory over the Governor's House Guard officers at the Cavalry Armory in West Hartford Saturday night...
Despite this plug for merit, the law's love for the status quo found reflection in a report of the committee on the "increasing number of governmental bureaus and boards." Declaimed Delaware Delegate James R. Morford: "We must guard in any proposed alteration of our inefficient political bureaucracy against the very real dangers which inhere in a non-political and efficient bureaucracy. One permanent threat to liberty is involved in the future development of civil service...
...major upset in eastern collegiate boxing circles, Coast Guard Academy whipped the Crimson mittmen, 5 1-2 to 2 1-2, at New London Saturday night. Captain P. D. Olney III scored Harvard's sole triumph by whipping MacLaughlin in the 155-pound class. This is the varsity's first defeat in two starts...