Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reprisal because he alternately played the union's and Maytag's games in his campaign for reelection, was consistently helpful to neither side, finally enforced the dismissal of twelve key men in Local 1116, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial law and shutting down Maytag as the strikers wished, he last week twirled around, permitted Maytag to reopen on Maytag terms and under State guard. The Governor simultaneously weaseled out of his role as a States' Rights champion (TIME, Aug. 8). He amended his order forbidding NLRB to continue...
...statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
...iron-jawed British court-martial convened last week in the locally celebrated case of a Sergeant-Who-Watered-The-Beer -Of -The - Officers' -Mess -At -The -Tower-Of-London (where His Majesty's beer-bibbing Beefeaters guard the Crown Jewels...
This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child...
Taking no chances, the court-martial suspended judgment until an investigation can be made of whether last winter the sergeant's wife and child really needed woollies. The final verdict: guilty...