Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Byam. knowing he was innocent, was sure he would be acquitted, but the navy court-martial condemned him to be hanged...
Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
Under their Constitution Germany's people must elect another Reichstag with in 60 days, but under martial law is a free election possible? German democracy faced last week the unmasked and unashamed autocracy of the President and his "Cabinet of Monocles." For the first time all parties of any consequence had united against National Hero Paul von Hindenburg. Grotesquely enough, they had united on a Communist motion...
...Portland. Legion conventions are four days of fun & frolic for middle-aged men who keep young on martial memories. As at their 13 other conventions, thousands of legionaries, converging in Portland, will dress up in bright uniforms and, behind blaring bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers...
...being subjected to an extraordinary inquisition. . . . The proceedings before the Governor developed into a travesty, a mock trial, a proceeding in comparison to which even the practice of a drumhead court martial seemed liberal...