Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President formally approved a sentence of death imposed by a court martial on Lieutenant John S. Thompson, U. S. A. The Lieutenant had pleaded guilty to the murder of a young woman in the Philippines. The father, a minister on Long Island, asked the President to grant clemency on the ground that his son was insane. But the President confirmed the sentence. It is believed to be the first death sentence ever imposed by a U. S. court martial in peacetime...
...every administration that has come into office since the Philippines were first occupied has promised to give the islanders their independence, the fact that Philippine citizens are still subject to martial law is significant. And the indifference with which Congress greeted the recent speech of Senator King on the subject shows that the government is as reluctant as ever to give up this profitable possession. On this occasion it was asserted that American dominion was being used as a cloak to exploit the resources of the archipelago...
...Representative John J. Kindred of New York, an alienist, called on the President to urge him to commute the death sentence of Lieutenant John S. Thompson convicted by court martial of murdering his fiancée, Miss Audrey Burleigh, in the Philippines. The father of the convicted man, a Long Island clergyman, contends that his son is insane and that he inherited insanity from both sides of the family. Representative Kindred declared that the Army medical examinations of the murderer show he is abnormal. The President took the case under consideration...
...forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...
Amid all this effort the strange case of Dreyfus, a Jewish Captain in the French Army, an alleged German spy, caught and fired the imagination of Clémenceau and Zola. Together they launched an attack upon the corrupt court martial which had convicted Dreyfus. The attack swelled into a national and then an international scandal the repercussions of which are still felt in France...