Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century also disapproved of the chaplaincy in the armed services. The clergy should serve as chaplains but "be paid by the church, wear a uniform or garb distinctive of the church, accept no military rank and, beyond their civilian patriotism, own no allegiance save that to which they are solemnly committed in their ordination vows...
...fill 99 volumes. On this job, Kemper met Historian James Phinney Baxter, president of Williams College and an Andover trustee. Baxter found Kemper refreshingly free of brass-hattitudes. He thought Kemper would be the man to succeed retiring Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, May 5). Says Kemper of his first civilian post: "Gosh...
...half a million diseased cattle had been shot and buried in lime pits, and thousands of exposed but uninfected animals had been sent to market. The anti-aftosa campaign, in which the U.S. alone has spent about $35 million, has enlisted 500 U.S. and 500 Mexican technicians, 2,000 civilian workers. More than 15,000 Mexican troops have assisted. From the U.S. has come about $3,000,000 worth of equipment-bulldozers for digging mass graves, spraying outfits...
...Estimates run as high as 42.5 millions, of which 24.9 millions are civilian deaths and 17.6 millions are military...
...nobody's surprise, the President last week also appointed General Omar N. Bradley to succeed Ike Eisenhower as the Army's chief of staff. Bradley will move over from his civilian post as Veterans Administrator as soon as General Eisenhower goes to Columbia University...