Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general free-for-all lasted nearly two hours in the Freshman quadrangle but, according to Police Chief G. A. Royal, caused no injuries. His only action was to issue a summons for speeding against Harry W. Harris 21, of East Orange, N. J., a senior and star guard of last season's football team...
...only Trotsky, but also Mexico's President Lázaro Cárdenas is convinced that Stalin's secret agents are bent on the Great Exile's assassination. Cárdenas' contribution to the Trotskyist cause is a guard of policemen who day & night patrol with fixed bayonets around Trotsky's home in the Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands...
...Lincoln-George Washington outfit reached safety in the Leftist rear. Of these Mr. Fred Keller, a former choir boy, elevator boy, newspaper reporter and amateur boxer, who is a political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before he was able to slip through to the Leftists...
...over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among them hundreds of former cigar makers. The new bridged section completes the170-mile Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West, makes Key West the terminus of U. S. 1. most heavily-traveled road in the nation. The other...
...unlike the "Old Guard" of the New York Stock Exchange, the members of the Chicago Board of Trade regard themselves as an exclusive club with a divine right not only to deal in grain but also to speculate in it. Just as the Stock Exchange has its SEC, so the Grain Pit has its CEA. But the Commodity Exchange Administration so far has been quite liberal and one of the few limits to speculative activity in grain is a mysterious "gentlemen's agreement" said to have been reached in 1926 by a Kansas city grain merchant named Lonsdale...