Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He plugged and profited at mining and engineering, served two terms as Utah's Democratic Governor, was spotted by Franklin Roosevelt as a Cabinet possibility at a Governors' Conference six years ago (TIME, July 14, 1930). As the civilian head of the Army, he kept well in the background, left the service pretty much to its professionals...
This did not greatly matter because the Government's forces against the Revolution were by last week in great part not Army detachments at all but civilian Socialists, Anarchists and Communists, male and female, for whose benefit the President had opened the arsenals of Spain and handed out some 500,000 rifles, pistols and small arms. In so doing Don Manuel Azana claimed to remain wholly Republican, but he also provided Spain with a problem in civilian arms-toting which it may take years to solve...
...their identification marks carefully painted out. Each was jammed with cases of machine guns, ammunition, hand grenades, machine-gun belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop the 780 miles from Italian Sardinia...
...with the Colonel at the controls and was about to land him for the first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield ten miles from Berlin which an ordinary German civilian would no more think of approaching unbidden than he would think of committing High Treason...
Since, after all, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Wilhelm Göring have the rank and dignity of statesmen, and since, after all, Charles Augustus Lindbergh is only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...