Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While they waited, Easter came, a warm, lovely day. In Helsinki thousands of Finns strolled around the Esplanade gardens. They watched the ceremonial changing of the guard at the Presidential Palace, and grinned appreciatively as the guardsmen marched down the Esplanade while the band played The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...support Costa Rica's leftist government, which was beaten in last month's presidential elections, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza sent fighter planes and transports and 400 well-drilled National Guardsmen to San Jose. At La Sabana airport, the Nicaraguans boarded...
...Manager Herbert Brownell buttonholed Republican politicos in Concord. Dewey's agricultural adviser, Dr. E. W. Sheets, tromped the snowbound countryside talking politics to the farmers. Though Brownell conceded most of the younger GOPsters and the political outs to Candidate Stassen, he figured the Dewey-minded ins and old guardsmen would be more than enough to swing the trick...
...Louis also gained recognition of a sort. The sportwriters rated his performance against Jersey Joe Walcott as the "flop of the year." Off next month to give exhibitions in London, Joe was in for a warm reception. Thirty British Guardsmen (all about 6 ft. and 180 lbs.) have volunteered to serve as his sparring partners. Said a spokesman of the Guards: "If any of them get knocked silly-well they'll regard it as an honor...
...President himself kept routine business to a holiday minimum. He popped over to Union Station to see the Freedom Train, peered at one of General George Washington's army supply accounts, noted: "Rum on every page." He received a delegation of National Guardsmen, told them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...