Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three and a half months after Captain William D. Brown had run the battleship Missouri aground at 15 knots in the familiar waters of Chesapeake Bay, a Navy court-martial meted out his punishment. Captain Brown, 47, was dropped back 250 numbers in his grade, thus putting him that many rungs lower on the promotion list. Captain Brown's sentence had been reduced from 300 numbers by the reviewing admiral and the case would get further review. But practically, as far as any further advancement went, Captain Brown had himself run hard aground...
...week's end the military junta which rules Venezuela declared martial law in the oilfields, then moved to dissolve the striking unions on the ground that they had "altered their specific objectives and converted themselves into an instrument of political action." Later, the government came right out and charged Communists and the outlawed Acción Democrática party with fomenting the strike...
...last week the Communists apparently felt ready for a preliminary trial of strength with the government. Because it was largely a test, the unionists refrained from violence and sabotage, and the government's use of martial law seemed enough to contain the situation. But U.S. and British experience had shown that as a practical matter soldiers cannot dig coal, and it was hardly likely that the government could keep 500 million barrels of oil a year flowing out of Venezuela without coming to some sort of understanding with labor. Unless the government could find labor leadership good enough...
...conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...