Word: guards
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week at least 97% of the Congress wanted to adjourn and go home. As a matter of fact, 147 House members, 66 Senators had already gone; eleven Republicans who had loudly insisted the Congress must stay in session to guard the nation from anything & everything have been junketing on Caribbean waters; occasional sessions of both chambers, attended by a scant 50 or so members, heard mostly lame-duck quacking. In the House, labor-baiting, gimlet-eyed Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Lame-Duck Ralph Church of Evanston, Ill. still objected to technical adjournment. They had their...
...came to Rumania and Poland's late leaders were herded into a concentration camp at Dragoslav. Last week the Marshal again justified his nickname when he and a number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...
When the Japanese mission docked at Batavia, tiny Envoy Kobayashi and his 23 aides were greeted by a guard of honor who, it happened, were: 1) the force assigned to rounding up all Japanese in case of hostilities; 2) the tallest men in the Indies. (On his return to Japan, Mr. Kobayashi told the press: "I was amazed at the tallness of the people. I do not even compare in height with a child.") Members of the Japanese mission smilingly pointed at the bristling shore fortifications, barbed wire and blockhouses. Oh yes, said the Dutch, with perfectly straight faces...
Leaving Fort Dix, N. J., where he commands the 113th Infantry, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, who manages the New York Times when he is not managing draftees, headed south for a "refresher" course for National Guard officers at Fort Benning, Ga. Easing himself exhausted onto his cot after a day's refreshment, the Colonel proclaimed: "I wouldn't have missed...
...Birdwell, most spectacular of the three, is a fox-faced, natty fellow with a thin mustache and a strange accent modeled after the English. Two years ago, Birdwell left his job as head of Selznick International's publicity department to set up shop for himself. Three pretty secretaries guard his locked inner office, where he works long & hard creating gags for Selznick (whose account he still handles) and a number of individual actors like Carole Lombard, who are willing to pay as much as $25,000 a year to keep their names conspicuous...