Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of Prime Minister Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits of the four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly its disapproval of the conduct of any officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations...
...work and the cessation of unemployment benefits. . . . The unemployed are to be drafted not only for work in their own trades but to other work. . . . No excuse for refusal to work, with the exception of illness, sup ported by a medical certificate, should be considered." In other words martial-industrial...
...then resumed a tour of some 35 concerts into the midwest.* Pianist Zecchi's friends say that he is a shy, serious young person who sometimes wishes he had gone in for political economy instead of music. His musical instincts developed first. At 12 he had written a martial chorus called New Italy, dedicated it to the Italian Crown Prince, conducted it at a concert which the Crown Prince attended. After conservatory training in Rome, he went to Berlin to study intensively under famed Ferrucio Busoni, developed German ideas and a love for Schumann and Bach. In Milan Toscanini...
...approaching court-martial of Major General Smedley D. Butler for his criticism of Premier Mussolini might appear questionable expediency from the layman's point of view, however imperative it may be for the Navy Department to carry out the formalities of necessary routine...
...general trend of American sympathy has so far been drawn toward Major General Butler and numerous petitions have been sent to President Hoover demanding clemency. Nevertheless, there are undoubtedly formalities of international ethics which the Navy Department is forced to respect, and the court martial may be purely a matter of naval routine. Whatever the circumstances, the best one can wish for is a speedy termination of an affair, which will add nothing to the cause of under-standing among nations in a world where indiscreet statements are often the cause of uncalled for ill-feeling...