Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain's south coast, broadcast that they had been welcomed with "enthusiasm" while Red militia fled headlong from the city, as well they might. Few hours after No. 2 White General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, "The Radio General," entered Malaga he broadcast that he was setting up courts-martial, that "Marxists will be instantly executed!" By nightfall nearly 5,000 persons had been rounded up. Released from Red prison ships in the harbor by General de Llano were 200 men and women, many of them Spain's aristocrats...
...proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...
...Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising 2 ft. an hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt that the emergency had reached such proportions that Federal troops were needed. For stricken Louisville he declared martial law. The whole nation was given front row seats at the Ohio valley's tragedy through Louisville radio station WHAS...
...German lawyer successfully defended Salengro with the following amazing plea to the German court martial: "Meine Herren, you must not sentence this Frenchman to death, for, France is a gallant country, and had a German prisoner in France committed the offense with which Salengro is charged we would consider it our duty to bow deeply before...
During Palestine's recent period of martial law, all tourist visas were stopped. In the case of neither Palestine nor India, however, have any major U. S. press services experienced difficulty providing visas for their correspondents. Says New York World-Telegram's, Reporter Ekins...