Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diseases which will menace the civilian and military populations during the next war are, according to Medical Director Charles M. Griffith of the Veterans' Administration, influenza, pneumonia, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, mental deficiency and psychoneuroses...
Decade ago a strapping young German Catholic priest, who had entered the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport. To obtain a civilian pilot's license tall, blond Rev. Paul Schulte flew surreptitiously until his ecclesiastical superiors discovered it, grounded him. To this disappointment was added deeper sorrow when Father Schulte learned of the fate which had overtaken a fellow Oblate, Rev. Otto Fuhrmann with whom he had been inseparable in the flying corps, in whose company he had entered...
...Chinese flag while controlled by Japanese. Admiral Sato, when asked if Japan would enforce Chiang's acceptance of these principles by a naval ultimatum, expressionlessly replied: "That may be the only way. It is the solution that first occurs to the simple military mind. If any civilian has a better suggestion, I hope he offers...
...Stone Ridge goes a sensitive, friendly and musically inclined youth named Jim Thornton (Richard Cromwell). After some months, tired of parades, catchwords, "discipline" and adolescent savagery, he dons civilian clothes, tries to leave, is slapped in the face by the commandant of cadets, discovers that he is a prisoner. While he is serving 30 days in the guardhouse, one of his roommates, whose notions of duty prevent him from reporting a cold to the infirmary, dies of pneumonia. In Thornton's hearing the conscientious medical officer tells the commandant that the school ought to be prosecuted. The commandant hints...
Most readers are likely to feel that Economist Chase's remedy is as dubious as his account of the need for its telling. With high praise for the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public work projects, he envisions a great campaign to protect U. S. resources that would create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic...