Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Governor Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, his patience exhausted, turned up Minneapolis' skirts and spanked her because she stubbornly refused to settle her three-week-old truck drivers' strike. His authority to spank grew out of his declaration of martial law for the city a fortnight ago. The spanking took the form of an order sweeping from her streets all trucks except those bearing milk, ice, bread, fuel, newspapers, cinema films and necessities of life...
...hard-boiled labor-hating Citizens Alliance of the employers, accused it of owning the Minneapolis press and city government, of inciting the police to shoot 50 strike pickets (TIME, July 30). As protection against the intention of employers to use police ruthlessly to crush the strike, Labor asked martial law and Governor Olson declared it, forbade picketing, forbade the movement of trucks except by military permit...
Next morning 600 Wisconsin guardsmen marched in, bivouacked on the broad lawns of the model village. But martial law was not declared and peaceful picketing was permitted...
First business of the day was to get a court martial busy trying the Dollfuss assassins. One ex-Sergeant Otto Planetta confessed to shooting the Chancellor. Said he: "Someone jogged my arm and the gun discharged. I then noticed what seemed to be only a shadow fall to the floor...
...court martial proceeded Vienna was roused to fresh alarm as 40 Nazis suddenly appeared at the hospital in which lay "King Anton" Rintelen, burst in and tried to rescue him. Smart police work nabbed eleven, but Austria closed the week uneasily convinced that there was still plenty of fight left in her Nazis...