Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-drawn-out, embarrassed "Lichfield trials" at last produced the conviction of an officer. Before the court at Bad Nauheim, Lieut. Granville Cubage of Oklahoma City, accused of ordering "cruel and unusual" punishments on G.I. prisoners at the Lichneld Reinforcement Depot, had pleaded that higher officers were to blame. The court-martial fined him $250 and issued a reprimand. The wrist-slapping indicated that the heat was to be turned on the higher...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Opinion (Mon. 11:15 p.m., CBS). Former Lieut. Colonel John R. ("Tex") McCrary, briefly executive editor of the American Mercury, and playwright Millard Lampell, former enlisted man, close in on the question: "Should Social Distinction in the Army be Abolished...
...charge of the Japanese farms is a tall, tanned, 38-year-old Kentucky farmer, Lieut. Colonel Ewing Elliott, head of the Army's hydroponic projects and now attached to the Eighth Army. He will use about 1,000 Japanese workers-including agricultural students-when the project this fall begins to yield its tomatoes (most successful hydroponic crop), lettuce, radishes, onions, cucumbers, peppers. Colonel Elliott thinks that the farms will not only help keep the occupation troops healthy, but may teach the Japs a valuable lesson. Only 14% of their crowded, rocky island is arable land...