Word: guardia
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...Nicaragua, smiled a crooked smile. "I understand the opposition is boasting of its Red Cross arrangements for election day and after. If they plan to test me, I advise them to have plenty of Red Crosses." Armed with wisecracks and 5,000 loyal, U.S. Marine-trained soldiers of the Guardia, Tacho was ready for anything...
...government's preliminary victory came on a ruling by Federal Judge T.; Alan Goldsborough that the Norris-La Guardia act forbidding anti-strike injunctions does not apply in the case of the Government vs. Lewis...
...Geneva, Chairman Fiorello H. La Guardia treated his colleagues of the UNRRA council to a tonic tantrum. His chief targets...
...highly placed Allied military source," who had charged that UNRRA served as an "umbrella covering Russian secret agents and criminal elements engaged in wholesale dope-peddling and smuggling." Everyone hastily promised to help La Guardia investigate at once...
...sprinkled with Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é paglia-that ain't hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. To an aide, La Guardia whispered: "Is this for keeps?" When the aide nodded yes, LaGuardia smiled, patted the she-wolf on the rump and said: "This beats anything we ever gave away at City Hall...