Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's Republican Policy Committee unlimbered a heavy-caliber political weapon last week. To clear the way for a Republican President next January, it announced that the Senate would confirm no more presidential appointments before the session's end. The decision affected some 1,000 civilian vacancies, 859 of them postmasterships. The only exceptions would be for the military and for Cabinet officers...
Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Recently, rugged young recruits, impressed by the Jewish terrorists' reputation for toughness and efficiency, have swelled the fighting forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work...
...elections since then his average error in estimating the popular vote has never been greater than 4%; since 1940, never greater than 3%. In 1940 he called the turn within 3% (Roper was within 1%, Crossley within 4%); in 1944 within 1% of the civilian vote (Roper within less than 1% and Crossley within 2% of the combined civilian and soldier vote...
...Brazil, where the big, 130,000-strong Communist Party is already outlawed, President Eurico Dutra asked his Congress to 1) hand civilian violators of national security over to military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay...
...blood banks and other emergency medical services had been available at Hiroshima, 20,000 lives might have been saved, according to the Veterans Administration's Dr. George M. Lyon. He and other experts urged setting up a medical program for civilian defense...