Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of 16, Republicans chose William Abraham Schnader, State's Attorney General, as their favorite gubernatorial candidate. In the hottest primary contest, Senator David Aiken Reed, Old Guardsman seeking renomination, beat (587,000-to-483,000) Governor Gifford Pinchot, oldtime Republican insurgent...
...check, had found 75 lb. Cried he: "I've always been poor. Now I can build a home and educate my children." Mail Carrier Harold Henry and wife stopped worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated over hauls of ten to 75 lb. and dreamed their dreams...
...silent peasant shacks, past the airport, to the little crossroads of La Reynaga. A few frightened Indians peered from their cabins as the guardsmen prodded four men in polished black puttees to the ground. A machine gun barked in the night. Four corpses sprawled on the ground. A guardsman pumped the gun for a while longer. Its clatter drowned the dying scream of a ten-year-old child in one of the dark cabins...
...Guardsman has stood patter in the House through the years than Bert Snell. Yet even he, last week, seemed infected with a new political spirit. Said he: "The whole country, the whole world is leaning more & more toward Liberalism. It is the popular acclaim. Political parties will yield to it for support. We, who want to continue the form of government that was established here 160 years ago, realize the drift. But we do not want this country swept into outright Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks...
What they were all treated to was an oldfashioned, rip-snorting stump speech by an Old Guardsman whose battle-cry was: ''Back to the Constitution...