Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Labor. As a show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success-vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general strike last year and Seattle's in 1919, a strikeout. Still" on hand when it was over were the 58 armed...
...once more, settling the ruins deeper, and a landslide rolled down the nearby Mountain of Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once only because the earthquake had shaken their hill villages too. Sir Alexander asked and got the power to declare martial law, inasmuch as all the police were dead. Then he sealed Quetta like a tomb, for fear of cholera. Only soldiers prowled through the stinking city...
...promised ten day leave, back to the Front for an atack which the colonel knows is suicidal and which is stopped almost before it is started by a nearly complete slaughter of the few men who manage to get out of the trench. The commander orders a court martial to try one man from each company in the attacking battalion for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline, of the trial, and of the carrying out of the inevitable sentence, is nerve-rackingly exciting. Not the least...
...confiscated $800,000 fortune, let him return to the U. S. a citizen. The Government promptly indicated it would do no such thing. In Germany this week Fugitive Bergdoll announced he would surrender to the U. S. and stand trial in Federal Court if the five-year court-martial sentence against him were annulled...
...that the War was a bad job, ill conceived and worse executed; plain men every-where have long ago decided that its causes were not so simple nor its aims so noble as they were once given to believe. Author Millis, analyst of war psychology, who showed in The Martial Spirit that some wars could be reduced to the terms of comic opera, in Road to War reduces the greatest war yet fought to terms of fallible human nature...