Word: militiaization
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...Order of the Golden Militia (also called the Golden Spur) limited to a world membership of 100 knights. In the U. S. no holder; in Great Britain the Marquess of Bute, lord of more than 117,000 acres...
...facts briefly were these. In the bloody guerilla battling that followed the Coeur d'Alene trouble, Governor Steunenberg of Idaho had called out the state militia, who, using unquestionably brutal means had succeeded in beating down the equally murderous members of the Federation. Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him. Haywood with two others was held for the murder; the news of the trial filled the press and three names filled the news. Most of all, Haywood, the thick-lipped, scarfaced, foul-mouthed friend...
...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...
...truly favorite son that he and his motorcade, preceded by militia and Boy Scouts, blared down the main street of Delaware, his home town. The entire populace had turned out, regardless of party. Other towns in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," had taught little Delaware how to act now that one of its own was recognizable as a candidate for the candidacy. Handsome, big-voiced Frank Willis was the man who placed President Harding in nomination...
...with the workers through a system of 'patron age'; a factory will 'adopt' a regiment; a regiment, on the other hand, will 'adopt' a village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into 18,000 trained and armed troops...