Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been overlooked by all news agencies, and one which I have often wondered about is this: What has happened to the thousands of Spanish Loyalists interned in France at the end of the Spanish War? Have they been absorbed into the French Army? Or have they been forced into civilian activity behind the front...
...TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
...Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
...member of what a New York Times headline described as a POLYGLOT LOAD which reached Manhattan on the Holland-America liner Pennland last week was a certain Miss Joy Allen Duncan, 19, tall, hazel-eyed Virginian, chatty as a debutante about one of the most harrowing civilian experiences the war at sea has turned...