Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Yokohama to Nagasaki, Japanese last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
...situation called for a court-martial -or a mediator. At week's end, a peacemaker stepped in. Lieut. Colonel A. Delbert Clark, Mediterranean theater public-relations officer and a former New York Timesman, became "senior officer" of Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...
...Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
Sirs: Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how the G.I.s out here feel about [Private] Hicswa, who was court-martialed, sentenced to die for the murder of a Japanese [TIME, Jan. 28]. The men agree that he should be punished-with a jail term-but that death is too severe. . . . We disagree with your statement that the Stateside papers "overplayed [Hicswa] . . . outrageously." The Army court-martial system is so weighted and bigoted, especially toward the enlisted man, that we feel that any and all court-martial cases should be brought before the American public. . . . (CPL.) ART YELLEN [AND FOUR...
...court-martial found McVay guilty of negligence in failing to follow a zigzag course, but the sentence (that he be dropped a hundred names in the list for promotions) was remitted. He had been "restored to duty"-of an unspecified nature...