Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Delbert E. Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...
...radio station, occupied the government buildings and arrested political leaders. The other ministries were distributed among senior army, navy and air force officers and a few compliant civilians. In an action that had a certain tone of the Red Guard to it, they ordered the Greek radio to play martial music and give forth tirelessly with such slogans as "Let us take our heroic ancestors for an example" and "Let the flowers of regeneration bloom over the debris of the regime of falsehood...
...harmed. Still, Greece had by no means returned to normal. Though many conservative politicians were released from custody, hundreds of others remained behind the walls of army compounds. Newspapers were not allowed to publish; the only radio allowed to operate in all of Greece was the armed forces' station. Martial law was still in effect, and soldiers continued to patrol the streets...
HAMP. A sweet but Simple Simon gives in to panic at the front during World War I and is punished by a military machine that cannot afford to temper steeliness with compassion. Robert Salvio gives a most sympathetic interpretation of Private Hamp as he faces court-martial...
Hamp as he faces court-martial...