Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armwood who was hanged last month after raping an old white woman. They seized four suspects, placed them in the guard room of the armory at Salisbury. When a crowd of 400 angry citizens gathered outside the armory to protest the arrest, cry for the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, militiamen threw tear...
...TIME erred in stating fortnight ago that, "in Iowa 20,000 deputies and 50,000 militia stood to arms to keep the peace." Iowa's militia totals 3,751, and was not ordered out. By request of local sheriffs, some militiamen were allowed to swear in as special deputies. There were approximately 1,000 deputies throughout the State, of which not more than 200 actively participated in quelling the strike. Milo Reno, prime agitator of the farm holiday movement, characterized as "preposterous" his colleagues' claim that 250,000 pickets were posted throughout the Corn Belt. He put total...
...picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout...
First came the troops, their uniforms a martial palette. Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...
Last week two cars full of deputies with shotguns escorted the prisoners to Decatur. Sheriff Bud Davis locked them up in a rickety jail which had been condemned for white prisoners two years ago. Thirty young militiamen mounted guard...