Word: martially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with that...
...good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager to enlist, threatened to run away unless his parents gave their permission. Anomalous Quakers, they complied, and as his father was a Congressman. Smedley started his martial career as a 2nd lieutenant. Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part...
...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...