Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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IIII Risk court martial...
Month ago, an Army court-martial at Monterey, Calif, sentenced slight, bespectacled Herbert Weatherbee, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, to prison for life. His crime: refusal to obey a superior officer who ordered him to salute the flag. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union publicized Weatherbee's story, adding it to the growing list of persecutions suffered by the anticlerical, religious group which refuses to bow before any "image" or to fight in any war save Jehovah...
...Higbee noted proudly that a general court-martial had never been necessary for any of his coastguardmen. One reason: Higbee in a seaman's uniform tried once to board a vessel, was ordered off by the guard. Pulling his dinghy to the other side, he tried again. This time he was knocked over the side. Next day Higbee commended his alert guard. Said he: "You don't get around only to catch up with the bums...
Pandemonium reigned in Captain Ross F. Jones' moot court martial trial today with the arrival of Miss Minute Mooch upon the scene ably portrayed by Vincent Lauer. Everyone stood aghast not knowing whether or not they were looking at the real McCoy when Minnie fluttered her pink garters and gave the boys the Hula hip come...
Last week, after a 26-day court martial, the piratical Pir of Pagaro was shot for "abetting, conspiring and preparing to wage war against the King-Emperor...