Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivalry between Militarist Starhemberg and Civilian Schuschnigg reached a near climax with the Prince's attempt to wreck the Chancellor's Cabinet through the Phönix-Wien insurance scandal (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Politically it was a squib. More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal...
...transport of enthusiasm at a civilian exploit, Congress in 1927 broke its own rules limiting the award to military men in actual conflict with an enemy and voted the Medal of Honor to Charles Augustus Lindbergh for his flight to Paris...
...been in love with Senorita Maria Elena Rivero Corral since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were...
...pointed out that more than $1,000,000,000 allotted for this year's public works and other projects would not be spent until those projects were completed in fiscal 1937. Next year's regular budget carries about $600,000,000 for various public works and Civilian Conservation Corps. Declared the President last week: "If to this total of $1,600,000,000 there were added $2,000,000,000, to be expended for relief in the fiscal year 1937, the total for this purpose would just about equal the amount that is being now expended...
Such disgraceful affairs are not peculiar to any political group, as we have had them under all kinds of administrations in the past, and as for keeping the military out of civilian politics - this insults the intelligence of any one who reads or has served in our military forces. Too bad our men in high places can't think and live in terms of Americanism and fairness instead of in terms of rather small and putrid politics...