Word: drumheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). For the first time since the Russian Revolution of 1917, eminent agents of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before one of the drumhead courts they have made odious...
...land where people's ordinary labors are thus the subject of compulsion, explosions of the full Bolshevik Terror automatically attend times of stress. Last week the chief drumhead court in Moscow was presided over by Judge Vassily Ulrich, famed during the British Engineers' Propaganda Trial (TIME, April 24, 1932). In a tome published last year by Dr. Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated...
Reprieves. Other stories were not so pleasant. Eager to make the most of their victory, Heimwehr chieftains clapped hundreds of Socialist officials in jail, where they already had Vienna's famed Burgomaster Karl Seitz and the Austrian Republic's first Chancellor, Dr. Karl Renner. Drumhead courts-martial were set up to try rioters, and kept the newly appointed state executioner, Herr Lang, busy hanging the victims. The first day's catch reached him the third day of the fighting. A young married man, one Karl Munischreiter, had been caught with a rifle a few hours after...
...scar, almost as bold as a knife wound, on his left cheekbone. And over his eyes the accumulation of scar tissue, where his brows had been opened and stitched and healed repeatedly, projected like eaves. His belly was still rather flat, but it flapped and fluttered like a loose drumhead and there was a band of slack-meat over the top of his trunks." The piece ended with what none of Pegler's readers could misconstrue as an apology for sentiment: "But I am bracing up now. I will be all right in a minute. I guess...
...being subjected to an extraordinary inquisition. . . . The proceedings before the Governor developed into a travesty, a mock trial, a proceeding in comparison to which even the practice of a drumhead court martial seemed liberal...