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...Martial law was matched against economic law in Oklahoma last week. The State's oil industry was the object of a dramatic experiment to see if rifles and machine guns can replace supply and demand as price fixers. Conductor of the experiment was Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, fresh from his Red River bridge war with Texas (TIME...
Early last week the Governor was "ready to shoot." He issued an executive order closing down 3,106 Oklahoma oil wells and proclaimed martial law for 50 ft. around each. Guardsmen were called out to enforce with shot & shell, if necessary, the Murray edict...
...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory...
Syndicalists called a general strike. Angry crowds attempted to storm the Governor's residence, were beaten back by troops. Governor José Bastos proclaimed martial...