Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike man named Ernest Ivison Pugmire sits at the command center of a great social welfare program. His brown eyes behind rimless spectacles are the eyes of a gentle, dedicated man. His martial, stiff-collared uniform is the uniform of a militant faith. On the walls of his large, comfortable office hang the pictures of the generals, from William Booth down, who have directed the army's battles...
...that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
...word letter to Sherman, he renewed his charges against the "Army General Staff," which he said was "a small, powerful military group" using "the Prussian method" of hoodwinking their superiors, Congress and the people. Since under regulations no officer has a right to demand such a court-martial, Captain Crommelin's statement got no further than one day's headlines. "The case is closed," said Admiral Sherman, and that was that...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...