Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State should be administered by the British under a revised mandate." Meanwhile, zealous Jews and Arabs continued for the sixth successive week their murder-bent activities. In cities, although British troops stood guard at virtually every street corner, bombs were hurled and snipers picked off their victims in broad daylight. The total toll of the terrorism during previous weeks: Arabs, 155 killed, 278 injured; Jews, 72 killed, 217 injured...
...iron-jawed British court-martial convened last week in the locally celebrated case of a Sergeant-Who-Watered-The-Beer -Of -The - Officers' -Mess -At -The -Tower-Of-London (where His Majesty's beer-bibbing Beefeaters guard the Crown Jewels...
Chief Characters: Slow-moving, heavy-jowled Exchange President Charles R. Gay, a worried broker who means well; arrogant, handsome Richard Whitney, leader of a clique known as the Old Guard; puckish, tart-tongued SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, reputed to be a radical of the deepest dye; Brokers Paul Shields, E. A. Pierce, John Hanes and William McChesney Martin Jr., upstarts...
...regulation had only begun. After three years on the SEC in lesser jobs, Chairman Douglas was all too familiar with the Exchange's standard method of passing the buck. Under the influence of Richard Whitney, no longer president but still boss of the board of governors' Old Guard majority, the Exchange would agree to any reform that was suggested, then evade it on a technicality. With typical boldness, Douglas decided that his best defense against the Exchange's kick was an offense: he bluntly offered it a choice between self-reform or SEC's taking over...
...Casino. By this time, Douglas had established cordial relations with a group in the Exchange which had long been at odds with Richard Whitney's Old Guard...