Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
...National Defense College is ... an embodiment of the unity of modern self-defense; it is not military alone, not civilian; it is citizen defense...
...graduate of the University of Virginia in 1921 and the Harvard Law School in 1924, Marbury made a distinguished record in legal service to the War Department during World War II. He was awarded the Medal for Merit, highest honor given a civilian in recognition of war service...
...Securities Act and serving two years as SEC chairman, Franklin Roosevelt wrote that he was leaving behind him "a great respect and appreciation for the scholar in government." Landis went back to Harvard as dean of its law school, returned to Washington in 1942 to run the Office of Civilian Defense, stayed on to do wartime and postwar economic chores in the Middle East...
Britain expected to repatriate all prisoners by the end of next summer, France by December. Both countries, however, hoped to induce Germans to remain as "civilian" workers. Some 85,000 P.O.W.s have already signed contracts to stay for at least a year in France, another 35,000 have applied...