Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of these two great fighting services Japanese officers traditionally stand together with the solidarity of an Oriental family. The Emperor by tradition never commands an unwilling officer to agree to serve under an official so intrinsically civilian as Japan's Premier...
...Foreign representatives in the procession through London. In civilian clothes among them is a member of the Rumanian order of Mihai Viteazul, the equivalent to the British V. C., representing Transylvania...
...three months ago before the House subcommittee in executive (secret) session. Congressmen plied him with questions which he answered "freely, fully and frankly." Typical Hagood testimony: "I want to say to you gentlemen that, since I came home from the World War, I have seen families of soldiers and civilian employes of the Army living under conditions worse than anything I saw among the Belgian refugees. ... In one case, at Omaha, as late as 1929 there were 16 families with only one bathhouse and toilet among them. Women on one side and men on the other, not even a suitable...
...Dealers made a great point of the necessity of keeping the Army out of civilian politics, of shushing an officer who steps across the line. With equal vehemence anti-New Dealers accused the Roosevelt Administration of being unable to take criticism, of exhibiting a vengeful spirit against General Hagood. Bitterest comment along this line came from Cartoonist Jay ("Ding") Darling, who lately retired from the New Deal as the disillusioned Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. For the New York Herald Tribune syndicate he drew a picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks...
...neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant war. Of such diplomats as Russia's Isvolsky, Austria's Berchtold, England's Grey, he writes with temperate disapproval...