Word: martially
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...Committee for Industrial Organization, backed by the Wagner Act, Boss John L. Lewis proposes to extend to all unorganized industrial workers willy-nilly, was content to leave the Motor Front quiescent for seven days. But on the Steel Front one sector reached the tense pitch of martial...
...scene Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg) gave vent to his anti-Fascist feelings with a song called "It Can't Happen Here," a ballet of Men in Black, Men in Brown. Men in Red, a procession of four miniature battleships moving across the water accompanied by martial music and the drone of airplane propellers. At the climax, a girl in a rhinestone robe mounts in a hidden elevator to the tower-top, with an escort of imitation West Point cadets and fireworks bursting over her head...
When the strains of martial music from a regular Army band are wafted over Soldiers Field tomorrow in the University's first large Military Review, the bugle notes will sound a striking contrast to the much more frequent anti-war exhibitions. For by this display of the Harvard R.O.T. C., the Field Artillery second lieutenants will show the University that there are at least some students who are as unafraid to show off their belief in preparedness as the peace strikers were to bemoan this preparedness...
...students, wish to put on a show, however, with all the fanfare of martial music, banners, guns, and sabres, they have an indisputable right...
...enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant. Four years ago Sergeant Batista was scribbling obscurely at courts martial when Franklin Roosevelt sent his friend Benjamin Sumner Welles as Ambassador to see whether the ominous groundswell against ruthless President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado could be oiled over without a Revolution...