Word: militiaization
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...Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer, has since lost it altogether by calling out the militia to halt labor demonstrations...
...Alphabet Militia. When, beginning July 17, 1936, Army garrisons all over Morocco and Spain revolted under their officers' orders, Leftist political groups in Spain were not entirely unprepared. Wiseacres had believed that civil war was inevitable ever since the February elections gave the Rightist parties a popular vote of 4,696,000 to the Leftists' 4,356,000, but, owing to Spain's peculiar electoral system, gave the Leftists control of the Government with 296 seats in Parliament to the Rightists' 177. The Rightists correctly assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain...
...become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...Rome. Like other travelers in Italy that year they ran into a great deal of marching in celebration of the loth Anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome. They met smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps and capes and farm boys from up-country who resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism.'' Everywhere they went the visage of Il Duce made jowls at them from stencils on walls, effigies in street parades. In the Church of San Marco in Florence Peter Blume noted an older icon-a cheap statue of Christ crowned with thorns...
...Another Sit-Down in the rubber industry last week, protesting layoffs in three Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, ended abruptly when Ohio's quick-triggered Governor Davey threatened to mobilize his militia...