Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violating the 96th Article of War for "willfully and feloniously" communicating military secrets to persons not entitled to receive them (supposedly Communists). Cause of the trial was discovery of an undelivered letter allegedly sent by Osman to a girl in Brooklyn, a letter which contained a military plan of Fort Sherman. Result of the trial was that Corporal Osman was condemned to two years at hard labor, fined $10,000 (to be worked off at the rate of $500 a year). Last week it was revealed that President Roosevelt on the advice of the Army's Acting Judge Advocate...
...wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify for war-risk insurance and the Bonus. He re-enlisted in March 1922 at Camp...
...half the Hialeah racing season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...
...Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Feb. 28--Major William C. Ocker, Army's oldest pilot in point of service and a pioneer inventor of flying devices, pleaded not guilty today at his general court-martial on charges he "cussed out" a superior officer...
...Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...