Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children's Hour. In San Francisco, after their boat capsized in rough water, five soaked, sputtering Coast Guardsmen gave red-faced thanks to their rescuers -a group of teen-aged Sea Scouts...
...Army was still not sure how many men it wanted in the regular ground forces, but it was thinking in terms of 500,000. The Air Forces knew they wanted 419,000. Guardsmen aside, this would make a total of about 1,500,000 regulars in the three services, and an annual cost of perhaps $10 billion-as much as the entire federal budget in the New Deal's most spendthrift days. (The Navy alone wanted -"to spend as much as an average Coolidge or Hoover budget...
Last week, as the 36th Division, built on a skeleton of Texas National Guardsmen, held a reunion in Brownwood, Tex., the men who still remembered the frightful days at the Rapido did what they always promised they would do. They demanded that Congress investigate the "colossal blunder [and] take the necessary steps to correct a military system that will permit an inefficient and inexperienced officer, such as General Mark W. Clark ... to destroy the young manhood of this country." Said one company commander: "I had 184 men . . . 48 hours later I had 17. If that's not mass murder...
From the seven-a former supreme court justice, two newspapermen, two former university professors and two student leaders-came a story of trouble in Tacho's domain. It had all started when Somoza's National Guardsmen charged and clubbed thousands of Nicaraguans who had turned out to welcome Chile's visiting libertarian President Juan Antonio Rios...
...looking war widow. For once the royal party sat in decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...