Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoover Dam was virtually under martial law last week. A strike was in progress. No work had been done for seven days, since Six Companies, Inc. had paid off 1,300 men and ordered from the reservation 200 who had struck for higher wages, better working conditions...
Early last week the Governor was "ready to shoot." He issued an executive order closing down 3,106 Oklahoma oil wells and proclaimed martial law for 50 ft. around each. Guardsmen were called out to enforce with shot & shell, if necessary, the Murray edict...
...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory...
...Cuban Congress hurriedly authorized President Machado to put the entire island under martial...