Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Germany, these swashbucklers were set to risk a great war between Japan and Russia. This week Japanese vote in a general election for a new Diet or Lower House, but Tokyo wiseacres agreed last week that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America might well take a rougher line with Japan was the loud thesis last week of Nevada's Senator...
...hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind the coffin of George V. Mr. Stoebs wore the only fedora hat in the procession and around his neck on a gold chain mysteriously dangled what appeared...
What determined little Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota smokes is no peace pipe. Although His Excellency is a civilian, Japan's wary militarists have come little by little to the conclusion that here at last is a Japanese diplomat of their own stuff. They freely declared to foreign correspondents in Tokyo last week their "regret" that the death of King George must have largely crowded out of the world press the "historic" address delivered last week to the Japanese Diet by suave but hard Mr. Hirota...
After this great inspirational speech Japan's Parliament was dissolved by Imperial Order and a general election set for Feb. 20. The Home Ministry, commonly said in Japan to "make the election," estimated cheerily that the two great civilian parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito, will each win approximately the same number of seats, and that the balance of power will be held by the militarists' small and comparatively new Showakai Party. Although not exactly translatable, Showakai is a Japanese word strongly implying that it is the Party's divinely appointed duty to usher...
...have been shabbily treated, contends that an experimental, progressive college like itself should be privileged to shuffle its faculty when it chooses. The only black sheep of importance was the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Academy was blacklisted in 1933 after it replaced over half of its civilian instructors with regular Navy men. Scrutinizing the five black sheep in the pen, the professors decided that the least consequential of them had washed itself white. Opening the gate a crack, they allowed Harris Teachers College to scoot gratefully out. Then the professors set about penning up a big, grimy...