Word: militiaization
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Last week, speaking to 600 officers of the Fascist militia, Secretary Turati snorted: "The whole world is against us. We are against the whole world because we are antidemocrats, anti-Liberals, anti-Socialists. Fascismo is a thorn in Europe's eye, a hard blow in her back, an army which obeys, fights, dies and does not argue...
...forces of conciliation won? Secretary Turati decided that if they had, he would sour the wine of their victory. He published an edict prohibiting all imported (therefore, French) wines at Fascist dinners or militia messes. As everyone knows, most Italian wines are totally without merit...
...quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...
...further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ...
...testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...