Word: civilian
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Next item on the administration's program was unemployment relief. To Congress, the President sent another terse message. He proposed three types of legislation: 1) immediate enrollment of workers by the Federal Government in a "civilian conservation corps to be used in . . . forestry, prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects;" 2) grants to states for relief work; 3) a broad public works labor-creating program. The President estimated that given power to proceed with his first recommendation, 250,000 men would be put to work by early summer...
Next morning Acting Lieut. Coffey, 47, put on civilian clothes, strapped his holster to his waist, placed his service pistol in the holster. Last thing before he left home he slipped his police badge in a pocket, for identification in case anything happened...
...constitutionally elected (TIME, Nov. 7). Also he wrote most of the Constitution, adopted in 1925 and since then trampled on by Chilean dictators galore. The inauguration of President Alessandri last week meant a return from Chilean chaos (which produced ten Chilean regimes in the past 18 months) to normal, civilian rule. But after such upheavals even a "normal" president must make concessions to the mob, especially since Chile is facing simultaneously an acute unemployment crisis, a food shortage and a currency crisis...
Trying his best to look, act and talk like a civilian, Germany's new Chancellor, General Kurt von Schleicher, has put away his bemedaled uniform, hung up his service cap. Fortnight ago he cajoled the hostile Reichstag into dissolution over the holidays (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week he made the program speech of his new Cabinet?which should have been made to the Reichstag?directly to the Damen und Herren of the Fatherland's radio audience. German tuners-in. accustomed to the rasping, imperious radio delivery of former Chancellor Colonel Franz von Papen, were pleasantly surprised as muftified General...
...Office of Works, desperately striving to save money, proposes to reduce by one-half the normal parliamentary guard of 90 policemen. As part of this scheme which regular London bobbies denounced last week retired policemen now pensioned will be required to do some parliamentary duty on reduced pay as "civilian watchers...