Word: fleischer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week ruddy-faced, lantern-jawed Captain Ralph E. Fleischer, onetime head of the U. S. Army School for Bakers & Cooks at Fort Slocum, N. Y., marched stiffly into the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. There a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major formally charged Captain Fleischer with violating the 93rd, 95th and 96th Articles...
...Thanksgiving Day, 1934, the prosecution asserted, Captain Fleischer "did feloniously embezzle by fraudulently converting to his own use two bottles of stuffed olives (50?), two bottles of sweet pickles (20?), two cans of crabmeat (96?), two turkeys ($4.80), two cans of cranberry sauce (48?), peas, corn and beans ($3.06), candy ($2), pies and cakes ($4.68)," all of which rightfully belonged in the larder of the U. S. Army. Last July 3, he was further accused of raiding the Army's icebox for two Army chickens (84?), two Army tenderloins of beef (96?), two slabs of Army cheese (22?), three...
Other charges alleged that Captain Fleischer gave false testimony eight months ago at a previous investigation, told enlisted men "to keep their mouths shut " about his forays on the Army larder...
...trial at Governors Island last week Captain Fleischer dismissed all three accusations as "trivial." His chief counsel, white-mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...