Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objected violently to his singleminded, often stubborn determination to put Germany on its feet economically. Germans of all parties considered him too sternly unyielding. The State Department, sometimes slow in spelling out policy, fumed over his penchant for making policy himself. There were constant wrangles with the EGA. A civilian investigating committee complained only last month that General Clay's administration had deliberately refused to break up two of Germany's once-mighty cartels...
...rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had steered clear of blunders that could have brought a shooting war. With Russian capitulation on the Berlin blockade, the way to civilian control of the occupation was as clear as it would ever...
...civilian Harry Truman wanted for the job was playing hard to get. But Washington expected any day to hear that able John J. McCloy had quit his $30,000,-a-year, tax-free post as president of the World Bank to become U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. General Clay would leave this week, whether or not the appointment was certain. He was anxious to get down to Georgia for some catfish-ing and the comforts of retirement...
...work as consultant to the airforce, W. Ratton Leach. Professor at the Law School was awarded the exceptional civilian service award Saturday. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, presented the medal in person...
...officer of the Naval Reserve on active duty, Berry participated in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll in 1946; earlier in the war he served on a number of committees concerned with medical training for the Armed Forces, the procurement of physicians for military service, and civilian defense...