Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People in Servitude. From his carefully prepared brief, Padway, a labor lawyer for 31 years, traced the history of injunctions in the U.S. For years management had made full use of that weapon, persuading the nation's judges, backed by the militia and the police, to enjoin labor from making any offensive move. The practice became so notorious that Congress tried to limit it in 1914 with the Clayton act. But the judges were reluctant to give up their power. In 1932 Congress tried again with the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction...
...nine, he was apprenticed to a British militia band in Guiana, hardly saw his parents again until he left the country in his early teens to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Then he went abroad, studied under Felix Weingartner in Vienna, nearly starved for five years until he got a job in England as a music critic...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...three of Poland's 17 provinces, Polish Peasant Party members had been banned as polling clerks, in spite of the fact that theirs has more adherents than any other party. Furthermore, local headquarters were padlocked by Communist-controlled police, and the Government had armed a "reserve militia" of 30,000. Another particular of the indictment: members of Poland's German minority had been supplied with counterfeit Peasant Party membership cards to brand the party as pro-German. Cried Mikolajczyk: "This is nothing but a political fight, which tries to make our work impossible and perhaps wipe...
Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...