Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weaving through the Holyoke Street blast, Vag clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail...
...Control Yuan. Like the President of the U.S., he will be commander in chief of all land, sea and air forces. He may promulgate laws when countersigned by the President of the Executive Yuan, and he will have power to conclude treaties, declare war, negotiate peace, declare martial law, and exercise emergency powers. The Legislative Yuan may review these acts within a month...
...needed for occupation duty, what he can do in the interests of world peace, and how he can return to his community to become an informed and useful citizen. In an Army still fumbling with the recommendations of the Doolittle Board and with reformation of the courts-martial system, I & E stands out as a happy experiment. There are much better ways to save the taxpayer's dollar...
Last week organized, khaki-shirted Columbians staged a meeting in a downtown Atlanta hall. While a tinny phonograph blared martial music, Columbians stamped up & down, looking baleful and clenching raised fists. Secretary Loomis, in a crew haircut, excoriated Jews, Negroes and the "alien element." President Burke, speaking with an affected English accent, presented a "medal of honor" to 17-year-old James Childers, just released on bail for allegedly blackjacking a Negro...
Lieut, General John R. Hodge, commander of U.S. occupation forces, declared martial law for Kyongsang-Pukto Province. Communist agitators could find receptive audiences in some sectors of the U.S. zone. Monumentally ill-equipped at war's end to occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice...