Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office. Flaunted before the German people, Hermann Goring's new trousers were a symbol of the Army's belief in Hitlerism...
...some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers' revolt...
Decided to maintain the Civilian Conservation Corps (forest camps) throughout the winter...
...sleeping President was rolling through Washington, on across the Potomac and down a Southern Ry. branch line to the Virginia town of Harrisonburg. There, after breakfast, he detrained, climbed into an open car with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and set out to have his first look at some Civilian Conservation Corps camps...
...Herrera for about 30 minutes the Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess-pay-dess...