Word: militiaization
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...identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call out the militia, florid Governor James Rolph Jr. snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great...
...TIME erred in stating fortnight ago that, "in Iowa 20,000 deputies and 50,000 militia stood to arms to keep the peace." Iowa's militia totals 3,751, and was not ordered out. By request of local sheriffs, some militiamen were allowed to swear in as special deputies. There were approximately 1,000 deputies throughout the State, of which not more than 200 actively participated in quelling the strike. Milo Reno, prime agitator of the farm holiday movement, characterized as "preposterous" his colleagues' claim that 250,000 pickets were posted throughout the Corn Belt. He put total...
...Murray gave a pragmatic reply. He threatened to call out the state militia if the Secretary disturbed his "uneconomic" constituents. There is no essential difference between Governor Murray's threat and the threat of Jefferson Davis to the Union in 1860. Washington used another word then, but the conflict of individual and national interests is substantially the same in either case. Governor Murray is a constitutional lawyer of great ability and vision. He realizes that the proud boast of James M. Beck that we have no administrative law is a medal with two sides, and that it would be quite...
...honor the founder of the U. S. Presbyterian Church (TIME, Oct. 16). When he heard the crowd was growing and growing ugly, Governor Ritchie ordered more troopers to the support of the 22 who were already guarding the square-faced little jail. He prepared to call out militia, requested the local American Legion commander to help protect the prisoner. The commander refused...
Carnera last week stuffed his Gargantuan frame into a new uniform, the gaudiest permitted a member of the Fascist militia, and took plane to Rome. For some reason, probably because it had never seen an important prizefight, Rome was wildly excited. Nobody seriously expected much of Uzcudun, the 34-year-old Basque woodchopper whom Carnera had defeated three years ago. Carnera received no money, was merely attempting to strengthen his standing in Italy. But, with a straight face, the New York Times correspondent quoted Carnera...