Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They drove to the White House behind a troop of cavalry and were welcomed by President & Mrs. Roosevelt in the White House portico. They had an official reception in the Blue Room, tea in the Red Room, an unofficial dinner...
...Rightist troop morale in southern Spain, according to the Leftists, was ebbing, partly because of military factors but even more because Rightists were being tempted by every means of expert Leftist propaganda to drop their rifles, come on over and share Spain. Leaflets dropped from airplanes and shot over no-man's land in Leftist skyrockets read: "Brothers, among us everyone owns everything in Spain collectively! The proof is that every man behind our lines gets all the land he can till free. Is that true behind your lines? We promise 'Bread, Land and Liberty...
...questioners: "Y'all must mean Joe Louis." In Ionia, demanding back pay, members of the Michigan National Guard who had policed Flint during the General Motors Sit-Down, planted themselves on their armory steps, refused to budge until their captain handed them each a $5 bill from the troop's athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane Co. got out his fiddle, made it a party. In many cases the Sit-Down was a craze like marathon dancing or miniature golf. But it was also...
...month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they did. By the tough general's own conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn to howl next. General Sherman headed his troop: north and began destroying things right & left. By the time the capital city of Columbia was sacked and burned, South Carolinians were howling as loud as their Georgia neighbors...
...Stadium last fall. The excuse of the Southerners after this football defeat was that all football was down in Charlottesville was a method of keeping the boxers in trim. Boxing is a major sport, the major sport, at Virginia; and 6000 people are expected to troop in Saturday night to read in their elaborate programs the biographies of the Harvard boxers, hoping they are about to witness southern honor gaining a sweet revenge...