Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being "nibbled to death" by "Prussian Pentagon policies...
Crommelin had the Navy in a spot. A disciplinary court martial would provide him with the rostrum and the martyrdom he seemed to want. But many once-sympathetic Navymen, embarrassed by his taunting evasion of discipline, heartily wished he would shut...
...delivered, the Russians paid off promptly and promised further jobs. Last month, when U.S. counter-intelligence agents broke up a Soviet-run kidnap ring in Vienna, Frankey & Abel got scared. Last week to Army interrogators they confessed that they had kidnaped Eder, were locked up to wait for court-martial...
Master of the Mightiest. An all-out disciple of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, Hap Arnold suffered a brief exile in the Army doghouse when he appeared as a defense witness at Billy's court-martial. But thereafter, he rose steadily, always trumpeting the importance of air power. In his leisure, he wrote a series of boys' books on aviation (Bill Bruce Becomes an Ace). In 1938 he became Chief of the Air Corps. In 1942, when the Army Air Forces were set up as an independent arm within the Army, Hap Arnold was its chief...
When the club brought Grover up for court martial, the children to whom he had been giving lessons picketed the club-house, weeping voluminously and crying, "We want Charlie. We want Charlie." "The officers gave me 15 minutes to clear off the premises," says Grover, "or else they would arrest me for inciting the little so-and-so's to riot." He finished the summer swimming in all the pro races he could find...