Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year has passed since my CCC days, and I am back into the whirl of city life again a job . . . nights at the University . . . and I have nothing but extremely pleasant memories of the Civilian Conservation Corps. "The March of TIME" helped me to live those "dollar-a-day" days over again. ROBERT F. CASEMORE Dearborn, Mich...
Sirs: In defense of the religious work in the Civilian Conservation Corps which Enrollee Mackenzie attacks so bitterly [TIME. Sept. 16], let me say that I have been a chaplain in this organization ever since its inception and, while church attendance is not compulsory, most officers use every legitimate means to guide the boys to the religious service. This they do for they know that the weekly visit of the "padre"' very decidedly helps the camp morale. We who wear the cross try to "woo" the boys into our congregation by giving them, not baloney or piffle, but something practical...
...Edward of Wales to inspect the British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen trousers, a brick red shirt, and with sporty, Baltimore...
...TIME, July 22, under Religion, you have quoted Chaplain Edward Aloysius Duff as follows: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than do men in civilian life." Chaplain Duff fails to mention that neither the 1,700 midshipmen at the Naval Academy nor the recruits at the various training stations have any choice in the matter of churchgoing. They go whether they want to or not. This accounts for a large proportion of the percentage of piety of the Navy. I have never observed any large church...
...hunters; tall, blond, mighty-muscled Nazi youths in civilian clothes, appeared suddenly on the Kurfürstendamm but seemed at first not to know quite what to do. Soon group leaders dashed up in snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead...