Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Coast Guard cutter Potomac somewhere in the Bahamas last week, President Roosevelt dispatched two invitations by wireless. One went to the Hon. Sir Bede (pronounced Beedy) Clifford, His Majesty's Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Nassau, to have lunch next day aboard the Potomac. The other went to the White House staff and correspondents twiddling their thumbs in Miami. Would they like to see what President Roosevelt looked like after a week...
James A. E. Wood '37, Varsity captain, will be unavailable this spring due to his play with the lacrosse team. Among men who have already reported despite adverse conditions are Richard G. Powell '38 and Joseph C. Bradley '39, full-backs, and Ernest A. Gray, Jr. '37, goal-guard...
...home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland of the Oakland Tribune; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper in each of California's three metropolitan areas. Several months ago the Hoover plans were well afoot: to name an uninstructed Conservative-controlled delegation to the Republican convention at Cleveland. As nominal head of this slate they picked Earl Warren, district attorney of Aiameda County and Republican State Chairman...
...Adolf Hitler ruptured the Treaty of Versailles by sending German soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). Last week a few of the boldest of such Belgians had gone back to their homes. They felt excited as they looked across the frontier and saw German soldiers standing guard for the first time since the Rhineland was demilitarized 17 years ago. What small Belgium wanted to know was whether Great Britain could be counted on in case of German onslaught...
Last week U. S. Citizen Simonds radioed ahead to Manila for an armed guard to meet him and his wife at the pier. When the Reliance docked, he went ashore behind four policemen to protest to U. S. High Commissioner Frank Murphy, took rooms at a Manila hotel. To newshawks he said: "One of my German friends who openly sympathized with me was attacked and beaten. I feared they would attack us. ... The officers and members of the ship's crew, however, treated us fine...