Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20th anniversary of the day he became the first U. S. civilian to be drafted into the World War, Dr. Joseph Edward Silliman Jr., 4 2-year-old Manhattan dentist, reminisced: "We were called and taken out to Camp Upton, at Yaphank...
...Premier well knew that China's Dictator knows well these significant statistics. Japanese equipment for motorized land warfare is infinitely superior to that of China which has scarcely any tanks; Japanese artillery is superior, although in this respect China comes nearer the mark. Nearly 7,000,000 civilian Japanese have received compulsory military training under Army instructors. China has no reserve of trained civilians. Her so-called "2,000,000 soldiers" are more than half nondescript rabble, miserably armed. Japan has 280,000 fully equipped, smartly trained soldiers. But China's ultimate resources in manpower and natural wealth...
Michigan was quiet. The Newton Steel Co. (subsidiary of Republic) plant re-opened by Mayor Knaggs of Monroe and his civilian army (TIME, June 21) remained unmolested by the angry union motor workers though they threatened to boycott its product...
Handlebar-mustached Senjuro Hayashi, leader of the "Gold Braid Cabinet" of generals and admirals which took office last January, was Japan's No. 1 exponent of military aggressiveness. In four short months the gold braids outraged the civilian party politicians, high-handedly suspended the Diet's lower house, forced an election, lost it but insisted on staying in office (TIME...
...could not be replaced by an out-&-out liberal one. In a brief radio speech in which he revealed an attractive radio personality, the new Premier declared that he would seek to "heal strife and eliminate friction." This meant that he had to conciliate the Army, recognize the disgruntled civilian parties, win the sympathy of the electorate...