Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh last week, Negro Henry Grier, condemned to death for murdering his wife, was led out to say good-by to his prison mates. He jerked away from his guard, raced up two flights to a balcony, plunged down to the concrete 30 ft. below. Two hours later Henry Grier, crushed, bleeding and unconscious, was carried to an electric chair, executed...
Shocking to all Europe this week and fraught with danger of fresh revolution in Spain was news that men uniformed as Government Assault Guards had atrociously murdered Royalist Leader Jose Calvo Sotelo. onetime Finance Minister to the late Dictator Primo de Rivera. Bursting into his home, they kidnapped Senor Calvo Sotelo in an Assault Guard's truck, butchered him with clubs, knives, bullets and dumped his mangled carcass in the Madrid Municipal Cemetery...
Japanese tanks and armored cars escorting Japanese troop detachments rumbled through the main streets and chief business section of Peiping to the famed Forbidden City of the vanished Manchu Emperors. At the gates of the Forbidden City was posted without explanation a heavy Japanese "guard...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...
From Frankfurt a special plane escorted by German air-force fighters carried Schmeling to Berlin where 500 amateur boxers in blue tights waited as a guard of honor with the Realmleader's personal adjutant, Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Brückner. State Secretary Walther Funk of the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rushed broad-beamed Max Schmeling off to dine with small, club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels. "I am delighted with the Hindenburg," said Herr Schmeling. "I hope my fight with Braddock won't be as hard as the one with Louis...