Word: guardsmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afternoon he began work at a snappy session of the new Republican National Committee. Gone from the committee were such old familiar faces as Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Mark L. Requa of California, Frank L. Smith of Illinois. In their places were Young Guardsmen. Without saying boo, the committee elected John Hamilton its chairman. Without ceremony he named an executive committee of 16 to meet this week in Topeka and begin overhauling the GOP. He made a speech of four sentences and the meeting was over: "There is no speech left...
...Faces. To seasoned political correspondents who have watched hard-eyed, cigar-chewing Old Guardsmen from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio run Republican conventions for years, the pre-convention scene's most striking aspect was the upsurge of new Midwestern faces. Roly-poly Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kas. Gazette and broad-beamed Managing Editor Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star headed the contingent of Kansas journalists and political amateurs who buzzed importantly around Landon headquarters. Mostly men in their 40's who had brought their homebody wives along, they were frankly delighted at finding themselves...
...hand. His National Guard kicked out the Government's officials in a dozen Nicaraguan towns. Forewarned, President Sacasa prepared Nicaragua's two strongest fortresses: surrounded the pink stone Presidential Palace near Managua on top of a dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
...Idaho Senator hoped to win 20 of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. His entrance into Ohio was made for the specific purpose of thwarting regular Republicans' plans to name a favorite son, and thus to deliver Ohio's bargaining power intact at the Cleveland convention. Old Guardsmen went right ahead and picked as their favorite son Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, elder son of the late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate...
...Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that make them look almost as spruce as Guardsmen...