Word: guards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked maritime nations* held a conference in London which resulted in the creation of the International Derelict Destruction, Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service. They agreed to pay dues on a basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now two U. S. Coast Guard cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift...
...than a decade, the crater vomited flame to a height of 1,500 feet, acrid smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...
...family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal...
What took place in Manitoba Parliament Building was a newspaperman's nightmare-the awful thing that sometimes happens to newspapers that jump the gun. As Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid...
Escorted by his clattering honor guard of Moorish lancers in a driving rain, El Caudillo took his stance on a lofty tribune. Before him, almost all his generals, the soaked diplomatic corps and the dripping Catholic hierarchy, paraded some 160,000 picked troops, representing various divisions of the Nationalist Army. Overhead in the rain clouds moaned 700 fighting planes...