Word: militiaization
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Attorneys for the roads held a joint meeting, found that if they obeyed Governor Langer's order they would run afoul of the Interstate Commerce Act. Yet Governor Langer's militia was mobilized, prepared to stop grain shipments with bayonets if necessary. The roads chose to be impaled on the Governor's embargo rather than on the Federal law. They jointly informed the Governor that they would have to accept wheat for shipment, although they "realized the paramount necessity of higher grain prices for our farmers." The roads hoped that "if the people of North Dakota obey...
That is the first group which has been subtracting from Roosevelt's sleeping hours; the second is the farm bloc. A few days ago Governor Langer of Nebraska ordered an embargo on all wheat exports from the state, to be enforced, if necessary, by the militia; Milo Reno is organizing another general farmer's strike; there has been increasing sentiment built up for inflation. These were not casual outbursts, but evidence of the farmer's feeling that he has been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural...
...There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
...this reign of terrorism will cease. How? Federalize the police forces of America! Every U. S. marshal, every State and county prosecuting attorney, every sheriff and his deputy, every State police officer would hold a commission from the Federal Government and be a unit under one directing head. . . . The militia of every State stands behind this federalized force. It would be essential that the direction of this plan be centralized under one head, the Attorney General...
...beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...