Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to call off the boycott, he realized its folly, but what could he do? Orders could not stop it, the Nazis would run wild. President von Hindenburg reminded his Chancellor of his oath to defend the rights of all law-abiding citizens. He threatened to declare martial law and abolish the Government. Then a compromise was reached: the boycott would be declared, but for nine hours on Saturday only. And it must be peaceful...
...Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
...careful investigation showed that canny old Paul von Hindenburg still held two aces up his detachable cuffs: The President still has power to dismiss any or all members of the Cabinet including Handsome Adolf himself. He still remains Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, with sole power to proclaim martial law. The Reichswehr is not yet a Nazi organization. If told to turn Adolf Hitler out of office it could theoretically...
...gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...
...Supreme Court soundly rebuked the Governor of the biggest State last fortnight. In a unanimous decision handed down by Chief Justice Hughes the Court held that Ross Shaw Sterling, Governor-reject of Texas, has exceeded his authority in declaring martial law in the gushing oil fields of East Texas and in jamming proration down the throats of oil operators at the point of his militia's bayonets. Although Governor Sterling's straight-from-the-hip action, together with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel...