Word: misconducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Method. Typical of the new detention barracks is the one at Camp Phillips, Salina, Kans., in the Seventh Service Command. The average casualty of his own misconduct is 25, has had only seven years education. Two out of three have been imprisoned for desertion (which in wartime can carry a death sentence) or persistently going A.W.O.L. (Other offenses: sleeping on post, repeated misdemeanors, unbecoming military conduct, escape, disobedience to officers.) Three out of four prisoners are single. Half come from farms, half from cities. All have been sentenced to hard labor and dishonorable discharge...
...revenue by soaking his city's railroads at treble the usual U.S. rates. But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that. Now a county tax board appointed by Governor Edison-after he kicked out a Hague-controlled board on charges of misconduct-is trying to bring some logic into Jersey City's inflated property-tax assessments...
...trouble with Hague's stooges in the county. Soon after Donovan lined up with forthright Governor Charles Edison in the fight against Hague over railroad-tax laws, the county prosecutor began making vice raids in Bayonne. Then Donovan was indicted by a grand jury for misconduct in office...
When the brig door blew open a seaman confined earlier for misconduct dashed to his post at an antiaircraft gun. A hospitalized officer brushed aside his nurses when the first alarm was sounded, ran across the Yard to his ship. So effectively did he fight, despite his illness, that his captain recommended promotion. One tough sailor, unable to find a mount for a heavy machine gun, fired the weapon from his arms despite terrific rapid-fire concussion...
...anyone complains about seeing sailors loaded to the gunnels staggering around Manila, he steps stoutly to their defense. When seamen, after weeks at sea, roll ashore, he feels they sometimes have a right to "make a rough liberty." Anyhow, he adds complacently, only about 100 are ever reported for misconduct on any one particular night, which is no worse than the average for college boys after a football game...