Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...mills had been reopened in the face of the union strike (TIME, April 15 et seg.). Their German managers demanded and received military protection from the State. Machine guns bristled on the plant roofs, manned by young Guardsmen, many of them students from the University of Tennessee. Some 800 militiamen and special deputies enforced what was, in effect, martial law through Happy Valley...
...Cavaliere Bandinelli, violently across the face, while trying to make him divulge the names and addresses of all the Freemasons in Florence. Benciolini, a friend of the old man, had then shot the Fascist, and the harsh reprisals which followed were alleged to have been committed by disciplined Fascist militiamen...
Recognizing, like the Metropolitan Museum of Manhattan, the compact, grainy beauty of the homes of colonial merchants, militiamen, farmers, Indian fighters, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently began an American Wing. It has removed ten rooms from ten stout New England Houses, among them...