Word: guardedness
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While President Hoover was sitting with his Cabinet one morning last week, an alarming report reached his bodyguard. Police reserves tramped into the White House grounds, deployed, guarded the gates. Pennsylvania Avenue shrieked with motorcycle sirens. Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to...
During its first years, the Society, as has been indicated, hardly differed from most contemporary literary clubs. Its prestige as the oldest Greek letter society, and its expansion to a number of colleges, did, indeed, give to it a higher reputation than that of its fellows; but in its organization...
Rich & powerful in their far-flung mineral empire, the Brothers Guggenheim must have been glad to see last week behind them. Threatened in Chile by political agitation against their nitrate interests, in Manhattan, on their copper front, they faced the Belgian Congo's prolific Katanga. Nor were they alone...
The Japanese General Staff determined to repair the bridge. Last week a Japanese repair crew, guarded by 800 Japanese soldiers, went briskly to work. Near by were 2,500 Chinese troops under anti-Japanese General Ma Chan-shan. As to how the battle began there were indeed "misunderstandings." Each side...
In the Occidental quarter of Tientsin the U. S. business community was well guarded last week by 500 U. S. soldiers of the 15th Infantry. Their commander, Col. James D. Taylor, declared a War Department spokesman, "is a man of enough experience not to be upset by minor dis- orders...