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Word: guard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerents' ships. While he stalled, U. S. plane makers rushed consignments over the Canadian border and onto Los Angeles docks for last-minute shipment to Great Britain and France. >The United Government Employes (colored) memorialized President Roosevelt to let Negro soldiers guard the White House now as they did during the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Paris, where it has become routine to guard the nation's art against the menace of German guns, the doors of the Louvre were locked and workmen began stolidly to remove its treasures. Some were stored behind steel walls in the Bank of France; others were carted off to hiding places in the country. Rare books and manuscripts were spirited away from shelves of the National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare. Cathedral cities heard the tattoo on wood as scaffoldings went up. From Chartres' Cathedral (one mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wires Down | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Coast Guard Commander Lieut. Burke prudently sought advice from Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck at his New York World's Fair Jungleland. Advised Big Gamester Buck: "They'll have to shoot him. Can't catch a lion loose on a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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