Word: warrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanding colonel, William T. Colman got off lightest: demotion to captain (TIME, Sept. 27) for drunkenness and careless use of firearms in shooting a Negro private. A lieutenant colonel found guilty of drunkenness and fraudulent transfer of soldiers was ordered dismissed from the service. A major and a warrant officer also were sentenced to dismissal...
...been conducted, the Committee reported, under the auspices of military men drafted from the Big Four rubber companies. But even these tests had proved "cotton cord the equal of rayon in most sizes of synthetic rubber tires in the latest tests. Rayon has displayed no superiority over cotton to warrant the great investment in critical materials now being made to produce facilities for rayon cord...
...expect the incidental results of this job will be substantial headaches and more personal abuse-which I will try not to warrant...
...Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor General of Algeria...
Majors, Field Marshals. Axis generals who surrendered to American troops in Tunisia will get fixed allowances of $40 a month each during their detention. U.S. practice calls for payment of $20 a month to warrant officers and lieutenants, $30 a month to captains, $40 to any rank from major to field marshal...