Word: martial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Suddenly the students of Peking University demonstrated. In the course of their demonstration they gave a beating to two or three statesmen who were suspected of favoring Japan. Their action sent a thrill through the country. A number of them were arrested and the city was practically put under martial law. The Chancellor of the University, a great liberal leader, resigned under pressure, and the students organized and made definite demands on the government...
...returned from France where he was in service with the American Expeditionary Forces. He was commissioned a major of infantry at the First Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg and assigned to the Transport and Military Police at Camp Devens where he was a member of the Board of Court Martial. In 1918 he was assigned to the Army General Staff College of the A. E. F. and sent to France...
...private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold the production together and prevent its deteriorating into vaudeville...
...difficulty with such a conscription is that it might start labor troubles in the country. It is a delicate proposition and would have to be handled in an extremely tactful way. One feasible method would be to draft these men for military service, give them uniforms, put them under martial law, divide them into regiments of engineers, and just as we have the Railway Engineers in France today we could have shipbuilding and munition regiments, farming regiments scattered in squads or platoons where they are most needed. Such an arrangement would satisfy the pride of the laboring classes and simultaneously...
...been justly praised. But there is another item in our military preparation that is more important, yet which has not been accorded its just praise. That item is morale. The strengthening of American morale within the last twelvemonth has been as inspiring as the creation of our martial hosts...