Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House in Washington last week Eleanor Roosevelt lay on her back recovering from grippe and thinking kind thoughts of the world-kind thoughts of the venerable G. A. R., whose martial music she could hear through her window; kind thoughts of Steve Vasilakos, the peanut merchant on whose behalf she interceded for the second time when police tried again to oust his pushcart from the White House corner; kind thoughts of her own husband. For as Mrs. Roosevelt reported in My Day, the President "asked Mrs. Scheider who was doing my column and she said, 'Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...
...water necessary for a company in a front line trench, memorizing pages of official instruction on trench warfare between bombardments. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer told how Sassoon (called Sherston in the narrative) revolted against this routine, refused to return to the front, demanded that he be court-martialed because he could not free his mind of the conviction that the War was ''being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." Refusing to court-martial a distinguished poet, exemplary officer and son of a rich and prominent family, military authorities decided Sassoon was shellshocked...
...Carolina story for the first time on hearing that the schoolmaster's grave was to be reopened, delved into the records which, by a queer thrust of fate, happen to be housed in the very suite of Luxembourg Palace where Ney was held a prisoner during his court martial. He finds abundant evidence to show that Ney was really shot...
...promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board Chairman and set up a new Board of his own. The Public Service Commission balked at lowering utility rates, another Talmadge campaign promise. The Governor constituted himself judge & jury, sat under military guard while he tried the elected Commissioners on the flimsy charge of using railroad...