Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the anti-U. S. Nationalists (a terrorist minority) started shooting at police who had forbidden a parade. Last week, crashing over the heads of paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly ripped into the reviewing stand. A Puerto Rican Senator and 30 others dropped. A National Guard officer fell, fatally wounded. The shooters were Nationalist agitators who had denounced the celebration as a "shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. When police had restored order, killing one Nationalist, Governor Winship, unhurt, congratulated the excited crowd on "standing firm," called it "a most convincing proof that American institutions are understood here...
Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico went to Ponce last week with 100,000 other visitors to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the U. S. Occupation. With native officials, members of the Insular National Guard, officers from the U.S.S. Enterprise and a U. S. destroyer, he mounted a stand to review a gala parade...
...place: Manhattan's U. S. Assay Office. The strikers: A. F. of L. armored-car guards, who wanted to ride (at union pay) with U. S. Coast Guardsmen stationed on trucks hauling silver bullion to West Point, N.Y. (TIME, July 11). The winner: Contractor Peter James Malley Jr., who continued to haul U. S. silver under U. S. gun & guard...
...most of the U. S. In Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly. All the guards were out chasing...
...jail. When she got out of jail she had his body moved three times before she could make up her mind to hold the funeral at home. Then she invited her daughter to come, promising that "everything is forgiven." Mary Belle Jr. went, accompanied by a police guard...