Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blame. The Navy top command had disagreed on disciplinary action. Nimitz said he had wanted to give Captain Charles B. McVay III, skipper of the Indianapolis, nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, "but the Department in Washington saw fit to disregard my recommendation." A compromise had at last been reached...
Letters of reprimand have been issued to Commodore Norman C. Gillette, who was acting commander of the Philippine Sea Frontier, his operations officer, Captain Alfred M. Granum, and the port-operations officer, Lieut. Stuart B. Gibson. A milder letter of admonition has gone to the acting port director, Lieut. Commander Jules C. Sancho. (Both Gibson and Sanchp are reserve officers, now getting out of uniform...
Thus Franklin Roosevelt set the tone for what may come to be one of the most historic speeches of his career. It was a confidential, informal speech, all but devoid of the ringing Roosevelt oratorical tone. There was none of the usual recrimination, reprimand or warning. In his studied informality, the President departed often from his prepared text (49 times for a total of 700 words...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
...news kiosks stomped Communist strong-arm squads. They picked up all copies of Cantachiaro, paid for them with I.O.U.s. The Government's National Press Commission went into an emergency huddle, weighed its first case involving freedom of the press under Allied rule. Its decision: a reprimand for Editor Monicelli, one week's suspension for Cantachiaro...