Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city manager has many real advantages, unrealized by most American communities. Essentially it means the elimination of graft and political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which...
Sirs: TIME's recent essay-of-the-week on Assistant Secretary of War Johnson contained a reference to the army's sinister "White Paper" relating to the suppression of civil insurrection in this country. Just a fortnight later TIME notes the relation of the transfer of air force headquarters into the Chicago area to "White Paper" detail...
...Officially, the U. S. Army ventures no guesses as to cause or place of any civil uprising. Obviously, however, any plan to use the army assumes a defense of Government from forces threatening Government. Obviously, too, any such threat to Government would be most likely in time of general economic collapse...
Citizen Moseley's concluding paragraph reminded readers that the army has a "White Paper" plan for fighting civil wars if & when civil government ceases to govern. "Today," he wrote, "when doctrines subversive to American constitutional government are being preached and civil authority is often openly flouted, the Army . . . stands firm as the one stable element. . . . The Army of the United States, unlike certain other armies, will never march for any leader except one lawfully appointed and acting fully and lawfully in the interest of all citizens and holding high the Stars and Stripes forever...
Dates of the series are as follows: Tuesday, November 1, "Aftermath of the Civil War"; Thursday, November 3, "Burying the Hatchet," and Tuesday, November 8, "Recent Times." Other notable men who have spoken for this series are Felix Frankfurter, Byrac Professor of Administrative Law, and Bernard DeVoto...