Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek...
This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...
...Cake (music & lyrics by George & Ira Gershwin respectively; book by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind; Sam Harris, producer). When the opening scene of this musicomedy began with the familiar martial strains of "Wintergreen for President," Manhattan first-nighters applauded happily. They recalled what a fine show Of Thee I Sing had been, leaned back in their seats to enjoy its sequel. But when the curtain fell on Let 'em Eat Cake there was an embarrassing dearth of applause. Critics and spectators went out grumbling that the nation's great musicomedy quadrivirate had lain down on their...
...puzzled officers had been sitting as a court-martial in Tokyo since July 25. Their thankless job was to mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with...
Meanwhile at Yokosuka Naval Base, near Yokohama, the court-martial of the ten Naval officers who joined in plotting insurrection and committed the actual murder of Premier Inukai worked up last week to a fine pitch of Japanese patriotic frenzy. Arguing that the confessed culprits must go free, Senior Defense Counsel Ichiro Kiyose, a Member of the Imperial Diet, screeched in his final appeal...