Word: militiaization
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WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 4--Combined forces of Polish Red police, security troops and militia men from worker ranks fought down a new student uprising for freedom here tonight...
...probable opponents for governor next year] will tear me to shreds." That was it: at 9 o'clock on the eve of school opening, Arkansas National Guard troops clanked into Little Rock. An hour later Orval Faubus appeared on television, explained that he had called out the militia to prevent violence...
...matchstick chewer. no longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus' disastrous grandstanding in Little Rock last week...
...Pennsylvania's Governor Simon Snyder deployed militiamen around the state treasurer's house and appealed to newly elected President Madison for support. But Madison replied in terms that left Pennsylvania no choice but to pay $18,000 to Olmstead, by then 83, and to call off the militia. Said Madison...
Since then other governors have called out state troops in an effort to negate the decisions of U.S. courts. In 1932 Governor Ross Sterling of Texas called out the militia to negate a federal court order that removed some local restrictions on the production of oil. Thereupon the Supreme Court gave the spirit of Marshall and Madison its clearest codification. Wrote Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...