Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...
...president. (His subordinate, Lieut-Colonel Robert C. Richardson, Commandant of Cadets, is West Point's dean.) He is liberal, much-loved by the cadets. He rescinded the Academy rules against riding in automobiles but enforces vigilantly the regulations against pocket-money and drinking (which is punishable by court-martial). During his tenure the Army and Navy have not yet been able to see eye-to-eye on football (save for post season charity matches) but he believes there may soon be a rapprochement. Last week General Smith, after 44 years, got from the football team his West Point...
...small to take any chances, the tiny Neutral Republic of Andorra (18 mi. long, 17 mi. wide) declared martial law and mobilized its sturdiest citizens when a few "foreign workmen" (Spanish) struck last week on a small hydraulic...
President Juan Esteban Montero calmed his citizenry and suppressed a threatening revolution last week by switching Cabinets, declaring martial law for 60 days. That seemed to pacify the people of Chile, but not even Juan Esteban Montero could cope with her volcanoes. Volcanoes Tinguiririca, Quisapu. Cordillera, Descabezado, Cerro Azul all erupted at once. Rolling clouds of ashes blew East across Argentina, settled on Buenos Aires 500 miles away. All night the earth rumbled, the sky flashed, nobody went...
...Martial," Professor Rand, Sever...