Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More crudely painted, yet more important historically was George Caleb Bingham's Martial Law (Order No. 11). The original remained in Columbia, Mo. last week, was represented at the Modern Museum only by a hand-colored engraving...
...when Artist Bingham was State Treasurer of Missouri, the Union Troops on the border were commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Ewing, lawyer and abolitionist from Ohio. To clear the Kansas-Missouri border of armed gangs that infested the territory, General Ewing issued Order No. 11, declaring martial law and decreeing the complete evacuation within 15 days of the population of the border counties. All the hardships that follow any mass emigration ensued. Many of the ousted settlers were friends of Artist Bingham who swore to make General Ewing "forever infamous...
...forget. Shortly after the Civil War he painted a highly melodramatic canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...
...cost the Government $5,000 more to get the statue from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
...painless death many years ago, and even, the catch word "For the Good of the People" has been tortured and distorted almost beyond recognition, for recent politicians have struck out "People" and substituted "Political Machine." In Arizona today the country witnesses the unfortunate spectacle of a Governor declaring martial law for no palpable reason. The State Militia has been called to "defend" the site of the Parker Dam project against "encroachments" on the State's rights. Had this step been taken before Election Day, a number of motives might be suspected, but since it can have no possible effect...