Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week ruddy-faced, lantern-jawed Captain Ralph E. Fleischer, onetime head of the U. S. Army School for Bakers & Cooks at Fort Slocum, N. Y., marched stiffly into the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. There a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major formally charged Captain Fleischer with violating the 93rd, 95th and 96th Articles...
...this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...
...Article 93 makes punishable by court-martial "any person subject to military law" who commits manslaughter, mayhem, arson, larceny, embezzlement, sodomy, other capital crimes. By Article 95, any officer "convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be dismissed from the service." By Article 96, a court-martial is called for "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and military discipline...
Tokyo continued under martial law. Last week 1,320 Japanese private soldiers who conducted the assassinations and seizures of Government buildings were released from custody and returned in good standing to their regiments "because they merely obeyed the commands of their officers." Two of these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
...named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial of Colonel McMullen on charges of having accepted bribes from Silverman...