Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouting mobs bore down on the Jesuit Industrial School, burned it to the ground, swept on to a Carmelite Convent, newly erected with funds collected in South America, and burned that too. In short order four more schools and convents were burned. Nuns and priests fled through back doors. Martial law was declared...
...Spanish Republic's avowed determination to protect ecclesiastical property by martial law, if necessary, is factual evidence which supports its accusation of communists and monarchists as responsible for the destruction of churches. It has taken the only wise course. The new Cabinet cannot afford to incur the enmity of Rome. If the republican government survives at all, it must walk a narrow road for several years, and any widespread conflict with the Church will roll it into the political quicksands...
Persistent newspaper pressure forced President Machado to order Major Ortiz before a court-martial. Meanwhile the fiery major showered Havana editors with challenges to duels. Editor Pizzi de Porras accepted "when and if the major's legal status is cleared." Prudent Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero replied to the major's seconds...
...Legation crumbled and blazed, the Hannas' pet green parrot had slipped from his cage, crawled down a ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic C. Bradman of the Marines ordered the patrols to shoot all stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like...
...said the Manchester Guardian. In the House of Commons, Dominion Secretary Thomas announced that he had received "a most painful surprise." Although U. S. payments were promised, New South Wales bonds dropped on Wall Street from 62½ to 56. Outraged Australians talked darkly of putting the whole state under martial law. Members of the Commonwealth Parliament from northern New South Wales and the Riverina district threatened, like Yancey of Alabama,* to secede...