Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters from his Japanese wife. But he still boasted of the Reds' "high regard for me." He deserved their esteem. According to witnesses, he played the Communist game, informed on one American fellow prisoner and recommended that another be shot. Last week in San Antonio, an Army court-martial gave Batchelor the stiffest sentence yet imposed on any American collaborationist: life imprisonment. In Tokyo his wife, still writing letters, said she would "wait . . . no matter how long...
...broadcasts. After a public court of inquiry, the Marine Corps drastically curtailed the career of its only offender, Colonel Frank Schwable. In secret investigations, the Air Force quietly cleared 69, discharged six of its 83 unnamed suspects, the others are still under investigation. The Army plans to court-martial about 35 of its 225 cases, has already tried two men who switched to Communism: Corporals Edward Dickenson (ten years) and Claude Batchelor (verdict expected this week...
...strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into the army. Last week, fearing further inflationary walkouts, he decreed a mild form of martial law that empowers the government to arrest its opponents, unless they are Congressmen...
Hero's Fate. In Washington, Secretary of War Spencer flew into a rage, was assured by Navy Secretary Abel Upshur that justice would be done. As the details leaked out, Author James Fenimore Cooper denounced Mackenzie's "terrible transaction." The Navy promptly began a drawn-out court-martial at Brooklyn Navy Yard, eventually exonerated Mackenzie and set him free to continue his career (he died five years later...
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Suzanne Danco, David Poleri, Martial Singher; Harvard and Radcliffe choruses; Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor 3 LPs). The greatest translation into music of Goethe's Faust, this score reaches heights of drama and tenderness undreamed of in Gounod's more popular version. Mephistopheles makes his entrances to portentous, brassy thunderclaps, Marguerite changes from an innocent child to a passionate woman in the toils of love, and Faust himself is almost painfully credible. The "dramatic legend" proved too big-and perhaps too tightly composed-to be a success on stage...