Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, who is now busily denying he ever was a fellow traveler, was named lieutenant colonel of intelligence in California's National Guard. His "duty": to make public and radio speeches come M Day. Wags suggested that "Comrade" Harry Bridges might be given command of the militia...
...enrolled in the departments of Military Science and Naval Science are actually the historical descendants of the "Minute Man" militia of 1776 and of the privateersman...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
...proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still do. It took six years for de Valera to complete his political comeback. When he did so, he began once more to lead the still-unfinished Irish march to complete independence...
...Lexington, closed his doctor's office in Nottingham, N. H., shouldered his squirrel rifle and marched off to the Revolutionary War-the beginning of a valorous career which made him a lieutenant colonel before he was mustered out in 1783. He became a major general of the militia, a Massachusetts Congressman, and, in the Cabinet of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary...