Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman last week tempered Army justice with civilian mercy: Pfc. Joseph Hicswa, sentenced to death for the murder of two Japanese civilians during a drunken brawl (TIME, Jan. 28), will serve 30 years' imprisonment at hard labor instead. The President acted on the strength of a review by the Judge Advocate General's office which found that: 1) the crime was unpremeditated; 2) Hicswa's mentality was sufficiently low to justify clemency; 3) the death sentence was excessive. More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed...
...biographer said that Ada Rehan's sense of comedy shielded "her love life* from vulgar comment." Her seagoing namesake in World War II never learned the trick. Rusty and listing noticeably, the S.S. Ada Rehan hung on her chains in Shanghai Harbor last week while drunken voices rose from her decks. In sea men's bars along Blood Alley, comment was vulgar...
...this first spring of the new peace, with millions of soldiers back home to dress for, U.S. women were indeed spending with the grand air of drunken sailors. Result: U.S. retail sales were up a whopping 50% over 1945, appeared headed last week for a record Easter total of $1.5 billion in women's clothing alone...
Informer. In Tulsa, sheriff's deputies watched a drunken pig lurch down the street, followed it straight to the drainpipe of a still...
...district was a reminder of U.S. opportunity, this part of Sixth Avenue (which no self-respecting New Yorker could bring himself to call the Avenue of the Americas) was a monument to American failure. No hour of the day or night found bar-lined Sixth Avenue without a few drunken men & women; no upper Sixth Avenue crowd ever looked happy or even gay. At the Miami Theater coming attractions were Primitive Love and Guilty Parents. Even...