Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chaplain on battleships and in Xavy yards, will sit at a desk in Washington, direct the spiritual welfare of 85,000 officers & men. Says he: "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...
...have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer may swear in the presence of a superior officer, but he may use 'damn' to a subordinate...
...Peiping, the Chinese Governor whom the Japanese had ousted had conveniently left behind an armored train lolling at a junction ten miles south-west of Peiping. Early one evening last week some 60 Chinese and Koreans in civilian clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai Chien-wu, boarded the train, rallied the Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien...
...novelty in Japanese politics, the Council provides an arena less formal than the Cabinet in which the fighting service and civilian ministers, perpetually at cross purposes, can quarrel at their ease for the public weal. The question last week was how many more bonds can the Imperial Government force the nation to absorb in order to meet the continued cost of Japanese penetration deeper & deeper into China...
...graduate of the Military Training School for Gymnastics & Fencing, a member of the Hungarian military elite, a crack swordsman and pistol shot, wounded and decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling...