Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilian aspects of the War are, if anything, more pathetic than the military-war crowds in London, Berlin and Paris (all looking very much alike), whole villages of refugees, white-hooded orphans. Hunger is a primary theme behind the lines. One picture shows five old crones poking into a Berlin garbage dump. Another, the most cruel in the whole collection, exhibits a young Russian girl, her naked body shriveled and deformed by famine...
...undersigned is in command of one of the Civilian Conservation Corps work camps and can speak from first-hand knowledge of the workings of the Corps...
...Cuba's political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: "Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President was happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ), was now working in the woods, had already sent home more than $6,000,000 to its jobless relations. ¶ Waiting at the White House was a huge patronage roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President's approval. July...
...scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer it." He is still troubled with bad spells of absentmindedness. Shortly after he took office, he consulted with a civilian who seemed to know a lot about the navy. When the civilian left, Secretary Swanson turned to his secretary and drinking partner, Archibald Oden, and said...
...Coast Guard, 1,600; Navy yards. 4,700: Customs, 640; Commerce Department. 500; Public Health Service, 500; Interstate Commerce Commission, 600; Government Printing Office, 400; Internal Revenue. 580. Air mail contracts were being sliced 25%. 5,000 route miles eliminated.* The Army was ready to let out 5,000 civilian arsenal employes. Charlotte, Denver, Des Moines, El Paso, Galveston, Indianapolis. Milwaukee, Mobile, Salt Lake City and Wilmington lost Department of Commerce district trade offices. Behind all this general shakedown in Government service lay these cold facts: ¶ The 1933 budget deficit was $1,786,000,000 (receipts...