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...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
Because bitter experience of a generation is not inherited, patriotism will live on. Individuals cannot resist the call of martial trumpets. Patriotism cannot be outlawed, but war can through the patient efforts of skillful unselfish diplomats using the facts of economic interdependance for their operations...
...President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...