Word: militiamen
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...unemployed burst into spontaneous laughter. I refrain, from asking just what chortling in high glee over the delightful ironies of current economic phenomena will do for those fifteen millions. I refrain from asking how a breadline in Union Square or a jovial clash between striking longshoremen and machine-gunning militiamen on San Francisco docks will provide "What America needs." I do not think you should be expected to be able to supply answers to those question, because, after all, you are merely attending a university, and "A university is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences...
Last week Harris' trial was scheduled to begin at Shelbyville. Circuit Judge Coleman sensed trouble. The sheriff requested from Governor Hill McAlister enough militiamen to prevent disorder. Accordingly, when Harris was brought into Shelbyville he was riding in an olive drab militia truck and men from three companies of the 117th Tennessee National Guard were riding along with...
Mayor Rossi thereupon swore in 500 more police, called for 2,000 more militiamen. By Monday the entire National Guard of California was under arms, and 5,000 guardsmen were in San Francisco...
...smudge-mustached Chancellor in his nondescript business suit was half way across the square before a young woman squealed "Hitler!" Ten minutes later II Duce marched in on schedule at his famed quick step. First warmly greeting Der Führer, he strode clear around the square inspecting Fascist militiamen. During the review which followed Mussolini gave each section the Roman salute while Hitler bowed to each from the hips. Since the German could say nothing in Italian the speech of the day was made by Il Duce from a balcony while Der Führer retired behind a window...
...Anne, Md. had hanged and burned a Negro named George Armwood, accused of raping an aged countrywoman (TIME, Oct. 30). When the local prosecutor failed to act on the cases of four men accused of having taken part in the lynching, Maryland's handsome Governor Ritchie sent 325 militiamen to round up the accused, bring them back to Baltimore (TIME, Dec. 4). Farmers and fishermen of the Eastern Shore bridled at this procedure, attacked the Governor's troops. Last week the four prisoners, one of them a past commander of a local American Legion post, were returned...