Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove to nearby CCC Camp Meriwether. In the yellow pine mess hall he received a cake 18 in. tall, congratulated woodsters on having "the most artistic camp I have ever seen," and concluded: "I hope that Congress, when it convenes, will continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for another year...
Among politicians throughout Japan extreme indignation seethed at this decision by the Navy. Only a few days prior the Japanese Supreme Court had sustained the death sentence of the civilian Tomekichi Sagoya who also alleged patriotic motives for his shooting of Premier Yuko ("The Lion") Hamaguchi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Unlike "The Old Fox" who died instanter at the hands of his Naval petty officer assassins, "The Lion" recovered partially from his wounds, lingered through a winter, spring and summer before dying. Why death for Civilian Tomekichi Sagoya, who almost failed to kill, when mere imprisonment was the sentence...
...prominent Japanese dared be quoted on the issue last week, but the Japanese news agency Rengo reported that a highly placed civilian statesman said...
Meanwhile in Havana the ABC set civilian sharpshooters sniping at soldiers from the rooftops. Atares Fortress was a bloody shambles. In the midst of the siege a wild-eyed messenger burst into the Presidential palace shouting that Rebel Hernandez had been killed. It was true, and so had over 150 others. Atares surrendered...
...McCarl and the NRA. Last week that collision seemed imminent. Upon the Comptroller's desk arrived a letter from a Ford dealer in Bethesda, Md. which was loaded with implications. The dealer, one R. P. Sabine, had put in the low bid on 1,500 trucks which the Civilian Conservation Corps proposed to buy. His bid was declared ineligible by General Johnson because Mr. Ford had failed to sign the automobile code and under Presidential ruling only Blue Eagle firms could receive Government contracts (TIME, Aug. 21). Dealer Sabine protested that his firm was under the Blue Eagle, that...