Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet declared martial law throughout Loyalist Spain. There was no panic as Rebel planes flew over Barcelona in almost continuous bombing raids (General Franco himself had a look at the city from the air and was shot at), as the city lived what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation...
...square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that the Bulgarian grab fever will simply have to subside without treatment. Bulgaria is fenced in to the south by Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece and Turkey. Military leaders of these nations were meeting last week...
Darius Milhaud: Chants Populaires Hébraïques (Martial Singher, baritone, with the composer at the piano; Columbia: 4 sides). Six rather arty little songs by one of the famed "Six" of left-bank Paris...
...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...President, acting on reports from each Sudeten district, was now declaring martial law in those where bloodshed was actual or imminent. In Germany it was said that Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein were finding it impossible to get through to each other over Czechoslovak telephone lines, although Viscount Runciman talked from Prague to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden...