Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the fact that Sudeten Nazi Führer Konrad Henlein has finally reappeared in the news as the new civil administrator of conquered Bohemia, could TIME tell what ever became of the Austrian Nazi Führer, Arthur Seyss-Inquart? Promptly after Anschluss Seyss-Inquart was shelved in favor of Josef Bürckel as Nazi Governor of Austria. Lastly, please what is the present fate of Kurt von Schuschnigg and Pastor Niemüller...
...Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead of homely ones as Government workers, with examples in the flesh...
...After 21 years in the Commerce, Treasury and Justice Departments, Bertha Lonergan, salary now $1,620 a year in the Department of Justice: "We old warhorses" are passed over for younger, prettier girls such as Miss Margaret Stanley (a niece of Special Assistant Attorney General William Stanley) with no Civil Service rating and only two years' experience, who now is paid the same as War Horse Lonergan...
Victorious Generalissimo Francisco Franco proclaimed over the Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time...
...Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders to mobilize for a last-ditch stand. When they reached their headquarters he had them arrested and carted...