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Last week ruddy-faced, lantern-jawed Captain Ralph E. Fleischer, onetime head of the U. S. Army School for Bakers & Cooks at Fort Slocum, N. Y., marched stiffly into the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. There a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major formally charged Captain Fleischer with violating the 93rd, 95th and 96th Articles...
...this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...
...named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial of Colonel McMullen on charges of having accepted bribes from Silverman...
...general strike paralyzed Seattle for five days in February 1919. In the summer of 1934 a million citizens felt the cold edge of panic when trade unionists crippled commercial activity in the San Francisco area for three days. Following a city-wide walkout last July, Terre Haute was under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small slice of industrial...
Details of all this came vividly to light for the first time last week when a Tokyo court martial took up the famed case of Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken-hearted civilians despised by the Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed...