Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired a car, started back to Elizabethton where he and the union committee, with their wives and children, settled down in a shack opposite the sheriff's office and lived there for three weeks, standing guard by turns with rifles...
...France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian for his use of troops in labor troubles. As Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky...
...General Franco's White planes had by no means disappeared from the skies. Choosing an early hour when Madrid's anti-aircraft guns were off their guard, three trimotored Whites zoomed suddenly over the Capital's southeast working-class district, and plunked bomb after bomb in the streets as women and children were thronging to the market and as hundreds of men had massed in the open for a workers' meeting. Before the frenzied citizens could hurry for shelter 52 of them were killed...
Attorney Snyder appealed to the U. S. Coast Guard and Department of Justice for advice. Each began an investigation, but a Department of Justice lawyer in Washington presently announced that there is no law covering the situation. Said he: "There are many crimes on the seas for which we have no laws. If the castaways had been members of the crew the case would have been very different, but legal rights of stowaways are problemtical...
Only yacht on the Bath Iron Works future books at present is Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new America's Cup defense candidate, the keel of which was poured last week. With the passing of the golden days of yacht building, Bath Iron Works struggled along with Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service contracts together with an occasional commercial job until President Newell learned how to get Navy work in 1932. Since then Bath Iron Works has delivered three destroyers including the Lamson, now the fastest ship in the U. S. Navy. Navy Department contracts account for more than...