Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer in charge of that pillbox is the permanent president of the division's court-martial. He has already court-martialed so many for desertion or surrender that he can't very well surrender himself. I can't do anything about...
...months' investigation, Army authorities started a proceeding which had few if any precedents in U.S. judicial history. They accused 43 Negroes of taking part in a lynching bee, charged 40 of them with rioting, three with rioting and murder, got ready to march them before a court-martial. The three charged with murder: Sergeant Arthur J. Hurks, 23, of Houston, Tex., Corporal Luther Larkin, 23, of Helena, Ark., Private William G. Jones, 21, of Decatur...
...Yale. During World War I Lieut. Colonel Stilwell served in France. Back in the U.S. at war's end, he felt a cold wave of pacifism welling up over the country, asked the Army to send him abroad, far away, anywhere that he might sometimes enjoy an occasional martial mixup. One day in 1920 he turned up in Peiping as a military language student...
...court-martial, scrupulously conducted, had heard evidence for six weeks. Last week it announced its verdict: the 50 Negro sailors accused of mutiny at the Mare Island naval depot (TIME, Oct. 2), were guilty. Neither. the extent of their guilt nor the sentence was announced. Until the findings have been transcribed in longhand (Navy regulations) and sent to Washington for review, even the 50 would not know their fate...
...crowd, the Liberty Bond rallies, the Democratic national conventions, the wild hilarity of the Armistice Day celebration. But there is sincerity, there is force, and there is a certain tone of power and importance about this production that few Hollywood spectacles achieve. Where emotionalism usually buries the theme, here martial music and gaudy effect drive it home, and one is never allowed to forget that genuine patriotism was defeated by selfish individualism. That is the only idea that "Wilson" tries to convey. It never goes all the way and becomes bald internationalist propaganda, because it was not intended...