Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Veterans' Administration. Most important: the Comptroller General's office, whose functions of o.k.-ing expenditures beforehand and auditing them afterward the President last year sought to divide between, respectively, the Budget Director and a new Auditor General.) The bill...
Southward Bound. The traditionally neutral Swiss had a real week-end scare when alarming news came over the border that the Reich had been massing more than 200,000 troops around Lake Constance, to the north, and near the Swiss eastern frontier. Switzerland's border guard was doubled, border roads and bridges were mined and anti-aircraft guns were in position in Basel, Zurich and other big cities. To allay popular fears the Swiss Federal Council appealed for calm, issued a statement that "rumors concerning an immediate menace to Switzerland, whether direct or indirect, are without foundation...
...noon the occupation of the city had begun. In the van were the Italian legion, behind them came the Civil Guard in their famous three-cornered hats, and behind them-truck loads & truck loads of food...
...through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off. Late the second day of the occupation, one frostbitten contingent reached the Polish border, where a Polish colonel ecstatically kissed the Hungarian commander while their troops embraced (see cut). Polish frontier guards welcomed the Hungarian soldiers as brothers and thawed them out in a guard station...
...week he pointed out that animals make structural adaptations to the available oxygen supply as to any other environmental circumstance. Frogs and toads living in oxygen-deficient waters grow abnormally large, those in oxygen-abundant waters abnormally small. South American lungfish develop extra gills when they go down to guard eggs on the oxygen-deficient bottom. Whales when diving supply oxygen only to their brains and their heartbeats fall from about So per minute to four or five...