Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question or to make any statement which he might choose, common sense, of course, should have made him understand that political comments and criticisms, never proper in an Army officer, might not freely be made. ... I am strongly of the opinion that disciplinary action is called for. ... A mere reprimand would be no more effective than it has been in the past...
...medicinal whiskey for Schenley during Prohibition. Stocky, round-faced, white-haired, he bustles around his plant with his hat pushed back on his head, continually begging the pardon of girl packers with whom he collides. The company baseball team knows that it is in for a stern reprimand from him if it ever loses a game. To keep fit he drinks a jigger of whiskey before every meal and at bedtime...
Last week the War Department completed its investigation of General Foulois. Instead of removing the Chief of Air Corps as the House Military Affairs subcommittee wanted, Secretary of War Dern let him off with a reprimand to the effect that he "did depart from the ethics and standards of the service by making exaggerated, unfair and misleading statements to a Congressional committee...
...commotion about Pitcher Dean occurred in Pittsburgh where the Cardinals were playing the Pirates. When the Pirates scored four runs in the fifth inning, Pitcher Dean and his teammate Joe Medwick came to blows in front of their bench. Accounts of how the quarrel started varied. Result: a severe reprimand and threat of a $5,000 fine for Dean; an impudent prediction by Dean that the New York Giants will win the pennant by "at least seven games...
...course," the Renown would have been able to drop safely in behind. Finally last week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral could be guilty, Admiral Bailey would...