Word: martially
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Since the late great Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell demanded a separate air force and got a court-martial instead, flying officers who agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result...
...Negro band jigged past, stepping high & handsome, swinging out martial music. The crowd relaxed. On came floats, decked with damsels; band after band after band; stunts, leaping cars, clowns, flags, hundreds of booted, satin-clad drum majorettes, strutting, cartwheeling, trucking to the swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives...
When Berlin first presented the song to Kate Smith, Manager Collins had the tune set to a martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
...historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous, resolute volunteers who had come to fight for freedom in a strange land. From these feelings comes the book's emotional charge, its human understanding, its martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter...
...After registration, but before actual induction into the service, conscripts remain subject to civil laws. After induction, they are of course subject to martial law. The Department of Justice will nab and prosecute men who evade registration or falsify statements at this stage (civil penalty: imprisonment up to five years, a fine up to $10,000, or both). But if they fail to report on the day and hour specified for induction, they will be classed as deserters, tried by court-martial...