Word: guard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keys to the City. From the moment the presidential Independence touched down at the National Airport, having brought the Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys...
...liberty to talk with anyone you please. You are at liberty to see anything you want to see. You will not be hampered by a police guard unless you want it. And you will have to ask for it if you do want it." Replied the Shah with obvious warmth and pleasure: "Tonight, Mr. President, as your guest at Blair House, I know I shall sleep well and dream true, for I shall be in the house of my friends...
...pilot asked for a radio bearing, got it. It was three hours later when Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda heard from it again. This time the message was terse, urgent: the B-29 was running out of gas and preparing to ditch. A few minutes later the Coast Guard cutter Bibb heard a faint SOS. After that, there was nothing...
...hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard Murray and his papers friends formed a brigade of 5,000 citizens, dubbed themselves the Squirrel Rifles. Everyone said the brigade was a joke, but it was a joke with a point. No one fooled with Alfalfa Bill. The state was born pretty much along the lines which Bill had planned...
Davis, regular left tackle, ended the season with more playing time than anyone else on the squad. To fill in for injuries to Houston and John Coan, he played a few minutes at running guard and worked at right guard in the Yale game.WILBUR M. DAVIS '50 holds the Frederick Greeley Crocker plaque, awarded for the first time yesterday. It goes to the football team's most valuable player...