Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martial Singhej, son-in-law of Fritz (and citizen of France) sang Wolfram in Busch's first performance of Tannhauser...
...Best." Last week, in a bare-boarded, dirty-windowed courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square, before a U.S. Army general court-martial, the ugly story began to unfold. The first defendant was slight, mild-looking Sergeant Judson H. Smith, a guard at the camp, who got an 8th-grade education in bloody Harlan County, Ky. In the words of Colonel James A. Kilian, camp commandant, Smith was "one of the best non-commissioned officers I've ever seen." In four perspiring hours on the stand, Smith denied all charges of mistreating prisoners. Outside the court, the disarmingly forthright...
...heavy cruiser Indianapolis was almost the last of the 437 combat ships lost by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Her loss led to the first general court-martial of a ship's commanding officer. In most cases where ships were sunk, routine reports were enough to show that negligence was not a factor; in others, courts of inquiry reached the same finding. Not so in the case of the cruiser which carried parts of the first atomic bomb to the Marianas, only to be lost a few days later on the way to Leyte, with the heaviest...
Uniform of the Night. The proceedings would throw a legal searchlight on some, but not all, of the dark questions asked by hundreds of next of kin in angry letters to the Navy since the "Indy" was lost. The court-martial should show whether McVay, who was born to Navy tradition (his father is a retired admiral), was justified in steaming on a straight course at only 17 knots, especially as the ship had no submarine detection gear...
Because hundreds (perhaps a majority) of the casualties got off the ship but were lost later, while wallowing for three days in the Philippine Sea, the answers to these questions were as important to Navy families as those to be answered in the court-martial of Captain McVay...