Word: militiaization
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...situation in Ohio has been well handled by State militia whose orders were to relieve suffering, prevent violence, take no sides. In Pennsylvania, however, Governor John B. Fisher continued to be inactive and uncommunicative...
...glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia, and the 68th U. S. Infantry suppressed native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently...
...Brother Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
...also been secretary of the Provident Institution for Savings, and a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Mr. Wolcott was a member of Battery A. Massachusetts Militia for seven years and afterwards second and first lieutenant in Troop B of the Massachusetts Guard; as a member of the latter organization he was on duty in the autumn of 1919 during the police strike in Boston. On October 22, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Army and was detailed to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on November...
Close-fitted bars over the cellhouse windows screened out the tear-gas bombs hurled by police and militia, but screams and uproar told what effect the barrage of rifle-fire was having. The convicts returned the fire with their one gun, injuring only one attacker. Seeing that they needed heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood...