Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the Buckley murder, Detroit became turbulent, terrified. Governor Fred Warren Green flew from Holland to Detroit, started a general investigation, threatened martial law until the city's crime-wave abated...
...Roumanian Diary is the journal of a German doctor who served on the Roumanian front in the winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor...
...these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored, the Lord Paramount, his lieutenants and England itself, are all blown...
...drone of the big plane was heard above Bucharest airdrome, by then brilliantly floodlighted. An army corps and the Prime Minister were at hand. To be ready for all emergencies Bucharest had been placed under what amounted to martial law with General Cenrik Cihoski temporarily appointed Governor of the Capital. Amid much obsequious bowing the Hohenzollern entered a limousine, was driven swiftly to Cotroceni Palace...
Courts functioning under martial law at Sholapur jailed wholesale those guilty of promoting swaraj, for terms up to ten years...