Word: militiaization
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...inflicting the state with a manufacturers' tax which would drive industry out of Louisiana. The Long oil tax caused the impeachment explosion. He was charged with: 1) Using his ap pointive power to control the courts; 2) Attempting to bribe legislators with patronage promises; 3) Employing the militia to loot and pillage private property; 4) Carrying concealed weapons; 5) Deporting himself scandalously at a New Orleans "studio" party; 6) Demolishing the Executive Mansion and disposing of its furniture; 7) Putting a $20,000 ice machine into a penitentiary without public bids...
Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...
Governor Long, a hot-headed young man, took office last May after a campaign in which he was supported by Col. Ewing's New Orleans States, and Shreveport Times. Soon after, taking office Governor Long began using the state militia to make raids on gambling resorts in the suburbs of New Orleans. Last month the raiders forcibly searched some of their prisoners. Women prisoners were stripped by women bystanders, infuriating their escorts, outraging public opinion...
Unwarranted authorization of interference by state militia with a legislative session which started impeachment proceedings against him, last year...
...decades the quarrel of state and national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...