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...stretch-out and union recognition, seemed to have reached its peak, settled down into an endurance contest. South Carolina strike leaders called off their "flying squadrons" of picketers, and most strikers stayed home. Important mills in the Carolinas bristled with bayonets. In Georgia, Governor Eugene Talmadge declared martial law, whipped up a "flying squadron" of his own-National Guardsmen who arrested and interned some 200 pickets, took control of troubled districts. The strike in the South remained roughly 40% effective...
First Northern shooting came at small Saylesville, R. I. (pop. 1,416) when deputy sheriffs pumped buckshot into a crowd besieging the local textile plant. On the second day Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis Green clamped martial law on the Saylesville district, mobilized his State's entire National Guard...
...French troops and the fear of Germany that he may do so. If the plebiscite is to be held on schedule, declared President Knox, the League must act on his repeated request to be supplied with at least 2,000 armed men to put the Saar under virtual martial law while the vote is taken...
...office gunning guardsmen mounted four machine guns on shiny-topped desks. Through open windows the guns were trained upon the City Hall opposite. Mayor Walmsley swore in 500 new police, bought a dozen submachine guns, threatened to annihilate the guardsmen if they interfered with city government. All these martial preparations landed New Orleans on the front page of the nation's Press. The country held its breath in excitement for the outbreak of local war, with St. Charles Street running blood and the dead piled high in LaFayette Square...
...passed their prime. Although they may startle the trade almost any year with a new trend, they are not at present the most dominant influence in fashion. Preeminent among them are Lelong, said to be the best organized house in Paris, Chanel, Bruyere, Goupy, Louiseboulanger, Jane Regny, Lucille Paray, Martial & Armand, Marcel Rochas, Maggy Rouff, Vera Borea, Alix, Dilkusha, Jodelle and the redoubtable Jean Patou...