Word: militiaization
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...political cowardice, at first refuses. By the time the Governor changes his mind, there is nothing left of the jail but a smoking ruin in which, at the flaming window of a cell, Katharine Grant has a last glimpse of her fiance. But a newsreel unit arrives before the militia. Wilson, who has escaped, sees in a theatre the story of his own burning. He sees the faces of the lynchers and memorizes them. To his brothers (Frank Albertson, George Walcott) he confides his purpose. He will have every lyncher hanged for his own "death." The brothers help a zealous...
...took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue, Mahoney and his men would "tie up Pekin as tight as a drum." The city answered by calling for militia...
...assembled at Blennerhassett Island. But they never arrived. At this critical juncture a Federal agent, detailed to spy on Burr and Blennerhassett, sent back his report to Washington. President Jefferson issued a proclamation warning citizens not to give aid to Burr's plan. Shortly a detachment of Virginia militia raided and looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named...
...original Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. bogged down in 1912, and to pull it out Otto Herbert Falk, militia general and Marquette University regent, was named receiver. In time Receiver Falk became President Falk, then (1932) Chairman Falk, still sits at the head of the directors' table at a salary of $36,000 per year. He saw Spanish War service in Cuba and Puerto Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four...
...years. As an alert editor, Doremus was interested in the rise of a Western Senator, Berzelius Windrip, commonly called "Buzz," a bubbling and buoyant individual whose personality and career closely resembled those of the late Huey Long. Windrip ruled unchallenged in his own State, built roads, enlarged the militia until it became his private army. When he got the support of Bishop Prang of Indiana, whose radio addresses reached millions. Windrip won the Democratic nomination for President in 1936. Thereupon Editor Doremus Jessup knew that history of an obnoxious sort was soon to be made...