Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety organized the militia that fought at Lexington, and it is still going strong. In World War II it has pioneered in civilian defense...
...find out how militia methods have changed since the Revolution, two Committee members, Lawyer John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard...
...Philip Washburn Prize of $140, for the best Senior honors thesis in History, was won by Eugene L. Bondy '42, of New Rochelle, N. Y., for an essay "The Militia Problem in Massachusetts During...
Most of the town's physicians took refuge in the city jail, where Governor George Clinton (uncle of De Witt) protected them by ordering out the militia (18 armed men). Statesmen John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, who tried to calm the mob, were stoned. So was Baron von Steuben, who, while pleading with the Governor not to use force, got hit by a brickbat and fell bleeding to the street. Changing his mind about pacifism, he cried: "Fire, Governor, fire!" At the first volley five people were killed, seven or eight wounded...
From their hill positions, Cebu's militia, commanded by genial, unflustered Colonel Irvine C. Scudder, whisked off to beach positions, pecked at the Jap. Somewhere the little M.P.s in their rumpled blue uniforms were fighting him too. But Cebu, only 20 miles wide, vulnerable in every spot to fire from the ships, never had a chance. The Jap was in the Visayan...