Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his Duchess in tow, the Duke of Windsor entered swank Fortnum & Mason's department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...
...shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired. The bullet pinked the beast between the eyes, but miraculously he bounded across the deck, roaring like a pampero. Drawing a bead on the rampaging lion, each guardsman fired. This time he dropped for good...
...capital, Bratislava, awoke to find CzechoSlovak gendarmes patrolling the city. The Hlinka Guards were disarmed and interned. From Prague President Dr. Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...
...alert U. S. Coast Guardsman listening in, this was smuggling talk, pure and simple. At 8:30 three carloads of Customs men and two launches were patrolling the area by land and sea. A batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...
Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...