Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Guardsman enlists for three years, a Terrier for four. As in the U.S., a Terrier spends two weeks a year in camp, attends 20-45 one-hour drills per year. Chief difference between the U.S. and British organizations is a British War Office ruling, except in wartime or during their annual training period, that the Terriers cannot be called up to deal with civil disturbances...
...Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe of lawyers: Milbank, Tweed & Hope...
...Sophie Christenson's operators prepared to comply, and to duplicate the order for their schooner Charles R. Wilson, U. S. Coast Guardsmen said four cutters were watching Japanese and U. S. fishermen, apparently did not find Japanese encroaching. Snapped a Coast Guardsman, also cherishing God-given instinct: "If there's any shooting to be done...
...editor of the Lampoon here, Marquand left college to work for two years on the Boston Transcript. After America's entrance into the World War, National Guardsman Marquand, who had already seen service on the Mexican border, went overseas. As first lieutenant in the Field Artillery, he participated in the Marne-Aisne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives...
...awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week he whipped a Cabinet together which contained three members of the National Peasant Party. These were promptly denounced as turncoats and Judases by Peasant Leader Maniu but remained silent on their dignity. Quickly Octavian Goga hustled the whole Cabinet to the palace to take the oath...