Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Confederation of Labor in Greece had declared their formal opposition. The strike was supposed to be in protest against a royal decree under which in Greece arbitration of all labor disputes has now been made compulsory. Just before midnight Premier Metaxas successfully scotched a strike by proclaiming martial law throughout Greece. Parliament was dissolved, the Cabinet omitting to proclaim when elections would take place. Liberals felt that King George had, by signing the necessary papers, made General Metaxas his Dictator...
...Midshipman Farnsworth won a certain notoriety for his bibulous escapades, was recognized by classmates as an able scholar and tactician. Few years after graduation he took up aviation, studied hard and long, became a Lieutenant Commander in 1925. Two years later his Naval career ended dismally when a court-martial dismissed him from the service for borrowing money from an enlisted man, committing perjury by disclaiming indebtedness...
...Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...first execution of a Japanese officer for political murder in 28 years. It occasioned no disturbance, no further outcropping of assassinations, and wary little Premier Koki Hirota felt safe last week in giving his firing squads some real work. According to the sentences of the divinely constituted court-martial, they were to shoot two infantry captains, a quartermaster captain, six infantry first lieutenants, an artillery first lieutenant, two infantry second lieutenants, an artillery and an engineer second lieutenant, a graduate of the Army Cadet School not yet commissioned and a retired Army officer-16 Army men, plus an eminent Japanese...
...Algiers, eager Communist and Socialist elements joined with Arabs in turbulent antics such as flinging stones at random among a junketing party of mayors from all parts of Algeria. Result: a proclamation of what amounted to martial law and further turbulence at Constantine and Oran. In Paris demonstrative war veterans filled the Champs Elysées with shouts of "Blum to the gallows!" and "Down with the Jews...