Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are about 1,600 full and part-time Army chaplains, 126 attached to the regular force, 200 to the CCC, the remainder to the National Guard and Reserve Corps. For every 100,000 civilian members of a U. S. church, one chaplain .is supplied to the Army, an interfaith commission acting as clearing house for the men. Applicants, who must be ordained and have three years' pastoral experience, take a stiff examination, if successful are commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with...
...Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew— Civilian Allen Hagaman—also died of burns. Most survivors were badly burned and three more crew and one more passenger presently perished. One of the first to go was Captain Lehmann. Just before he died he said: "I intended to stay with the ship as long as I could, until...
...Manhattan, arrested while hacking at a fire hydrant with an ax. James Boyle explained in court: "I found the ax on my way home from a tavern and just couldn't resist the impulse to chop something down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...surprise last week when Japan went to the polls, gave Premier Hayashi a most resounding electoral slap. Of the 466 Diet seats, more than 400 went to avowed opposition parties, with the moderate Minseito actually losing ground to the rabidly anti-Hayashi Social Mass Party. So bucked up were civilian politicians that they demanded that the Cabinet resign at once, even the Tohokai chiming...