Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bluestone, special student, member of the executive board of the Young Progressives, announced last night that the organization proposes three alternatives: First, that the University, under the guidance of President Conant, lead a concerted program involving other universities to demand the removal of the loyalty pledge for NROTC students...
...CONDUCT OF THE RECENT TRIAL, IN WHICH FORCES WERE PLAINLY AT WORK TO CRAMP AND PARALYZE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WAS AN ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS: "THE PROPHET AND THE MARTYR...
...Seattle Times. Thomas played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross...
Every sport-minded Navy officer in Honolulu knew about "Chug-Chug" Williams. For three years the star of the Navy submarine base team, he was a big, wide-shouldered outfielder, who batted lefthanded, whaled the ball at a .350 clip in the cleanup spot. Last year, he helped his team win the island championship. When the team was all set to leave for San Diego to compete for the Navy championship, Chug-Chug refused to go. A chief petty officer got suspicious. Two days later, Chug-Chug surrendered. He admitted he was Seaman First Class Louis B. Williams, sought...
...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...