Word: kangaroo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...
...Washington, Harry S. Truman declared that the trial by Budapest's "kangaroo court" was "infamous." Said Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "The people of the United States, and of all other freedom-loving nations, are sickened and horrified...
...found out the hard way. Glen Garden's caddy corps blindfolded him, stuck him in a barrel and rolled him down a boulder-strewn hill behind the caddy house. At the bottom, he was paddled soundly. Then, in a kangaroo court finale, the boss caddy picked out a kid Hogan's size and said: "All right, fight him." Ben whipped the other...
...Whitewash, pure and simple," snorted Howlin' Mad. "The so-called board . . . had no more judicial standing than an Army kangaroo court. This board had no access to Saipan records of the Navy and Marine Corps, and sought none...