Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By last week the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai had become an international incident. Japan demanded that Girard be tried for manslaughter in a civilian court (likely sentence: two to 15 years). The U.S., in the person of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, refused to release him from Army custody...
Countermanding Admiral Hubbard's decision last week, Secretary Wilson quickly received support from U.S. veterans' groups, criticism from the Japanese for his "lawless, wayward attitude." At week's end Girard was still in U.S. hands, and the "Somagahara incident" was becoming a rallying point for a swelling...
The letter points out the the incident has been looked upon by the Japanese public "as an act of unimaginable rudeness to a foreign guest." The professors go on to say that Tsuru has been criticized in the Japanese press both for having answered the subcommittees' questions and for supposedly...
Reischauer said last night that Tsuru "had been terribly hurt" by the experience and that "he thought that he had been embarrassing the people that had invited him to this country." Reischauer added that this incident has given the Communists an excellent opportunity to "stir up a furor."
One of Manhattan's most mysterious citizens, aging (66), ailing Frank Costello, commonly termed a gambler and tax-dodger because no more nefarious raps have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction...