Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to their plates. Trucks bearing sound newsreel equipment lumbered up into position. Idlers paused, gaped, made throngs. When Vice President Curtis left the Cabinet Meeting, a bodyguard hopped into his car beside him.* All was in martial readiness about the White House to meet a reported Red demonstration for Unemployment relief. Police, newshawks, cameramen, bodyguardsmen, idlers, the President himself waited tensely for the picketers to arrive and be repulsed. One hour passed, then another. But not a Red showed up. The police began drifting away. The White...
Quick as scat the President declared martial law. When the mob reached Government House soldiers began by breaking heads with the butts of their rifles, later fired. In the bloody fray five students were butchered...
East Wind. Sigmund Romberg (Nina Rosa, The New Moon) is the lushest musician working for the musical comedy stage. His melodies, usually boomed by a great big band, come out thick as fudge. For East Wind Composer Romberg has done his fudgiest. Pleasing result: a martial number called "East Wind," a stomp-time ballad named "You Are My Woman" and a lament "I'd Be A Fool...
...nation which sees eye-to-eye with the President in the matter of arms reduction is Italy, which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer...
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped. General Findley sent his men throughout the county posting Governor Turner's proclamation of martial law. Guarded by the militia, veterinarians returned to Farmer Lenker's place determined to test his cattle. When they arrived the cattle were gone. Farmer Lenker had sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance...