Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequently, the Rhode Island Constitution (Article 1, section 18) says: "The military shall be held in strict subordination to the civil authority. And the law martial shall be used and exercised in such cases only as occasion shall necessarily require...
...express limitation on martial law, the general provision, "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", was held by the United States Supreme Court in the great case of Ex-Parto Milligan to make it, impossible for an earlier Governor of Rhode Island (General Burnside) to establish martial law, even during the Civil War, in a region (Indiana) which was not invaded by the enemy but completely free from disorder and in which the civil courts were quietly sitting...
...Court, in the case where Chief Justice Hughes was quoted above, unanimously denied the power of the Governor of Texas to establish martial law in an oil field for the purpose of carrying out a conservation policy entrusted by the Texas legislature to an administrative body resembling the Rhode Island Racing Commission, when the governor thought that the orders of the Texas commission were not sufficiently vigorous and also feared that those orders would be upset by the courts...
...establishment of martial law under the conditions here stated permitted by the Constitutions of Rhode Island and the United States? Martial law is a very serious interference with the ordinary privileges of American citizens. Once it is established, they can no longer come and go freely upon a portion of the soil of the United States. They are hindered in the ordinary enjoyment of their property. They are accountable for all their actions within the proclaimed territory, not to judges and juries, but to generals, corporals, and privates. If they disobey military orders, they can probably be tried by court...
Fifty members of the Physical Directors Association of Massachusetts and Rhode, Island will tour the University athletic facilities today under the guidance of Norman W. Fradd, director of Physical Education. At lunch in the Faculty Club Wesley Fesler will speak on "Dissecting Football" and will show movies...