Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard in the swaying, jouncing train, with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asleep a few cars away, first class...
...Schmeling's shattering fist has smashed all adversaries of National Socialism in the face and saved the prestige of the white race!" crowed Das Schwarze Korps, newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's black-jacketed Special Guard last week. By order of Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, all editors in the Fatherland were barred from ever printing another sports article by Boxing Expert Arthur Billow, who had predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard...
...Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting he began reading into the record the august name of Taschereau...
Change the Guard! As Dictator Mussolini girded himself last week for whatever efforts he may have to make toward smashing Sanctions, he executed once more his periodic Fascist maneuver, "Change the Guard!" This means that with arbitrary decision Il Duce shifts various Fascist leaders who serve him and Italy into new posts. Last week Dictator Mussolini began by firing himself from three of his biggest jobs: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonies and Minister of Corporations...
Chased out of Nicaragua by his niece's husband, General Anastasio Somoza, and Somoza's U. S.-trained National Guard (TIME, June 15), Nicaragua's legal President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa last week found an attitude of hurt dignity his only recourse in his sanctuary in San Salvador. "The military coup of a reprehensible character," said he, "was executed by the abuse of my confidence. . . . I must confess frankly that because of the repeated protests by Somoza of his loyalty, his prospects and his connection with my family [technically making Somoza ineligible for the Presidency, under Nicaraguan...