Word: militiaization
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...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
About that time a lieutenant colonel of Ohio militia arrived in town as an "observer." He showed himself in uniform around the place and by nightfall McGuffey had calmed down. From Washington the Department of Labor dispatched another mediator. Meantime, the weeds were harvesting the onion crop...
...Roosevelt in 1932. Last week Governor Langer attained a second distinction when he became the first man convicted of fraud under a new Federal law. For the past 18 months, Governor Langer has made things hum in North Dakota. He made a big to-do by calling out the militia to enforce his wheat embargo, his mortgage moratorium. When taunted by his enemies for a 5% levy on the wages of all State job holders, Governor Langer candidly replied that the contributions were necessary to the life of the G. O. P. In addition to being Governor, William Langer...
...Berlin had asked for the meeting. Berlin tried to give an opposite impression by releasing press handouts explaining Chancellor Hitler's departure, with the stipulation that they must be falsely datelined so as to seem to have come from Italy. For the big show 3,000 picked Fascist militia were mobilized in Venice by steel-muscled, pantherlike Secretary of the Party Achille Starace and 80 bulging German detectives shook Venice's Grand Hotel with the tramp, tramp of their arrival. Paying guests were vexed as these Teuton sleuths commanded "Stay in your rooms this morning or leave...
...Baffled correspondents were reduced to cooking up tales that Hitler and Mussolini were playing a game of vanity in keeping each other waiting at their public appearances. These stories started when Der Führer left the Grand Hotel ten minutes ahead of schedule for a review of Fascist Militia in the square facing St. Mark's. With no military escort, the smudge-mustached Chancellor in his nondescript business suit was half way across the square before a young woman squealed "Hitler!" Ten minutes later II Duce marched in on schedule at his famed quick step. First warmly greeting...