Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a day-long trial, a jury took only 2½ minutes to find McGee guilty, and he was sentenced to death in the chair. But the Mississippi supreme court reversed the conviction on the ground that McGee had been tried in so electric an atmosphere that state Guardsmen with fixed bayonets had patrolled the courthouse to prevent trouble...
...which seized Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and scouted inland disguised as a hobo. When the U.S. entered World War I, MacArthur, then a major on staff duty, conceived the idea of a "Rainbow Division of National Guard troops from different states; though his superiors were hesitant to send National Guardsmen to France, he went over their heads, sold the idea to War Secretary Newton D. Baker and went with the division to France...
Reservists and National Guardsmen were fed to the gills and hopping mad. Wherever they went looking for jobs, more & more employers were beginning to ask pointed questions and phrase the same harsh answers: "Sorry, we have to give it to someone we know will be here next year...
...reluctance to take on men who might soon be in uniform had not yet spread to all employers. But there were already enough examples to support the citizen-soldiers' gripes. In Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, reservists and guardsmen angrily complained that they were being i) passed by on promotion lists, 2) asked to quit their outfits (just about impossible) or start breaking in replacements. In Dalton, Ga., a young National Guard corporal had just been offered a better job. He inadvertently mentioned the Guard. "Whoa, just a moment," snapped the interviewer, and called off the deal. In Atlanta...
...National Guardsmen and regular soldiers had another special and startling gripe of their own. Under the present snafued pension laws, noted the Army Times, an Army or Air Force Reserve captain killed in Korea would leave a pension of $331.80 a month to his widow and two children; a Regular Army or National Guard captain killed by the same shellburst would leave his dependents a pension of only $130 a month. Reason: reservists come under the same pension laws as civilian employees of the Government; regulars and guardsmen (as well as all Marine and Navy personnel with more than...