Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hannah Williams Dempsey came out for the third and last round of her divorce trial fagged but trim. After chief co-respondent Benny Woodall disclaimed any & all connection with the Dempseys' "martial troubles," the onetime show girl took the stand to tell how the Manassa Mauler once sent her guests home in an ambulance, once suggested an illegal operation to her, once tossed her into a closet, once waved a gun at her (she said she told him to "Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister...
...Risk court martial...
Holland. Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death; by week's end 17 had been executed. Desperate Nazi officials ordered the internment of 450,000 demobilized Dutch soldiers, declared martial law throughout Holland. The Netherlands Government in Exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means, but 18,500 Dutch veterans were soon rounded up and in concentration camps...
...allowed, under smothering restrictions, to test the battle worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...
...Navy Lieut. Manning M. Kimmel, son of the retired Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, after Pearl Harbor listed for court-martial, went the Silver Star for submarine counterblows against his father's back-stabbers...