Word: depot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
Half an hour late, in strode imperious Colonel James Alphonse Kilian, former commandant of the depot. In barrel-organ tones he demanded to see the order convening the court. The president banged his gavel to silence the belligerent witness. Kilian called for a comfortable chair- "one with arms on it if I have to sit here...
...Technicolored musical celebrating the coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
Handsome, dignified Major Richard E. LoBuono, onetime provost marshal at the depot, had been called as a defense witness for Smith. Under triphammer questioning LoBuono began to amend his answers. Among the cross currents of his testimony was one which swirled close to Colonel James A. Kilian, the depot's bespectacled former commandant. LoBuono testified that he had been shaken by Kilian's threats. One of them: "I made you what you are today and I am going to hang you." Later, LoBuono said, he "had gained the impression" that Kilian "was trying to control witnesses...