Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
...daily hog receipts fell from 2,000 to 500, the price of hogs for the State did not rise, dropped instead 25?. The Holiday idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from the Reno movement but parallel with it in purpose was last week's milk strike at Sioux City. Local dairymen were in despair about the $1 per cwt. they were being paid. That meant about 2? per qt. They too banded together to withhold milk from...
...confidently prepared last week to deal with it, was not at the fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant, unassuming Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army at the age of 18. in the midst of the great final period of the German...
...Seven fell. Police took 200 prisoners, including eight men found in a room near the war office where they said they had met to play poker. A doctor, passing in a taxicab, was drilled through the head. Within four hours the uprising was over, Madrid was quiet under martial...
Suddenly in the darkness a bugle sang out "Cease Firing!" feet tramped in martial unison up the road, over the slag heap. Governor Leslie, declaring martial law, had called out guardsmen to lift the siege of the Dixie Bee. From Terre Haute, twelve miles north, 820 infantrymen had arrived by bus. Out of the fan house, the office, the boiler room, streamed an exhausted, grimy band of workers, overjoyed at their rescue...