Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aware of the fact that the Morro Castle tragedy made heroes of a handful of Coast Guardsmen down the Jersey shore because it has not reached the newspapers. I visited the Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately...
...peak, settled down into an endurance contest. South Carolina strike leaders called off their "flying squadrons" of picketers, and most strikers stayed home. Important mills in the Carolinas bristled with bayonets. In Georgia, Governor Eugene Talmadge declared martial law, whipped up a "flying squadron" of his own-National Guardsmen who arrested and interned some 200 pickets, took control of troubled districts. The strike in the South remained roughly 40% effective...
...North last week got a bitter taste of the same sort of strike violence which had plagued the South week before. National Guardsmen were called out in Maine, Connecticut and in Rhode Island, where trouble hit hardest...
Tear Gas. Flying a fast Lockheed from McKeesport, Pa. to Providence, R. I. to deliver a load of tear gas bombs to National Guardsmen in the textile strike (see p. 22), General Manager Theodore Taney of Central Airlines crashed in the Tuscarora Mountains, was found dead in his half-opened parachute...
...long Coast Guardsmen, fishermen and Jersey boatmen plied the choppy seas, trying to distinguish between the floating bodies of the dead and the floating bodies of the living. The former were left to wash ashore with the tide...