Word: militiaization
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Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
Died. Petko Stoyanov, 71, second surviving member of Bulgaria's anti-Communist triumvirate, former cabinet minister (1944-47); of undisclosed causes; in a "People's Militia" prison in Sofia...
...policemen have a right to strike? More than 1,000 members of an A.F.L. policemen's union in Boston took the affirmative. Calvin Coolidge, then governor of Massachusetts, replied: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." He sent the state militia into Boston to restore order, and broke the strike. Overwhelmingly, the nation agreed with Coolidge, and the issue was as thoroughly settled as such questions ever are. Last week it was back again in a slightly disguised form...
Full Quota. At Camp Strong, Japan, after he received a recruiting folder informing him that he would win a medal if he could sign up a few men for a state militia unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 45th Division Sergeant Gene Evans wrote back that he had signed up his whole company (mostly from Tulsa), was awaiting transfer orders...
...citizens of America . . . from 18 to 50 years of age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform arms, and . . . accustomed to the use of them." So urged George Washington in 1783. Last week, 168 years later, the U.S. Congress took the first big step towards Universal Military Training for all men when they reach 18. Delightedly, Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg got Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson on the phone. "George Washington started it," she said, "and you finished...