Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martial law was matched against economic law in Oklahoma last week. The State's oil industry was the object of a dramatic experiment to see if rifles and machine guns can replace supply and demand as price fixers. Conductor of the experiment was Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, fresh from his Red River bridge war with Texas (TIME...
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...
With Rangers blocking the free bridge, Governor Murray was determined that no one should use the toll bridge. Therefore he declared martial law-the first in eight years in Oklahoma-over the road to the latter span, summoned 32 guardsmen, including a colonel, three captains and a lieutenant, to halt all traffic a mile and a half away. After being duly photographed and interviewed, this force took up its patrol with orders from the Adjutant General: "Hold the fort but keep the cost down...
Syndicalists called a general strike. Angry crowds attempted to storm the Governor's residence, were beaten back by troops. Governor José Bastos proclaimed martial...
...jeering." At last installed in Woolsey, Jordan recommenced his speech which was listened to politely for perhaps 20 minutes, when the crowd began drifting outside. There it formed itself into an inevitable parade behind an inevitable band, and marched off about the town to the strains of martial music-a comparatively mild and unobjectionable performance for a student body committed to a war that was to end all wars...