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More crudely painted, yet more important historically was George Caleb Bingham's Martial Law (Order No. 11). The original remained in Columbia, Mo. last week, was represented at the Modern Museum only by a hand-colored engraving...
...cost the Government $5,000 more to get the statue from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
...painless death many years ago, and even, the catch word "For the Good of the People" has been tortured and distorted almost beyond recognition, for recent politicians have struck out "People" and substituted "Political Machine." In Arizona today the country witnesses the unfortunate spectacle of a Governor declaring martial law for no palpable reason. The State Militia has been called to "defend" the site of the Parker Dam project against "encroachments" on the State's rights. Had this step been taken before Election Day, a number of motives might be suspected, but since it can have no possible effect...
...Estonians, one of the most enlightened Baltic peoples, the electric chair seems crude. In principle they have no death penalty, but it is revived whenever Estonia is under martial law, as she has been since last March when a Fascist-Nazi Putsch was crushed. Last week pensive President Päts got to thinking that perhaps Estonia's mode of execution can be improved...
...Martial law had been proclaimed the instant the revolution got under way. On the morning after the bloodletting, Spanish warships were still plumping shells into a few rebellious villages, there were snipers still on the rooftops of various towns, but the great Socialist uprising was over. Strikers, however, were still out. In Madrid, Spanish soldiers were called in from the streets. Stripped to the waist they labored in the city's deserted bakeries, baking bread...