Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, recently retired as deputy commander of the U.S. Air Forces, got the first civilian job of his 51 years: vice president of storm-tossed Millionaire Howard Hughes's placid Hughes Tool...
Lessons for Revolutionists. Negro Manning Johnson, once a party member and now a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, came to testify. Before he deserted the Reds, because "they were trying to exploit the Negroes," Johnson was a member of the party's Trade Union Unity League, whose job it was to fight the A.F.L. He had spent three months in a Manhattan training school for revolutionists...
Father Lassalle began his mission with gingerly diplomacy. In speeches to Brazil's Japanese colonies, he would refer to the presence of U.S. troops in Japan, the civilian need for food & clothing, the fact that Japan still had a future, after all. But after he had finished talking, people would still go away saying to each other, "Well, you see-the Father did not actually say Japan had lost...
...Gunner Charles Gorman, who was shot down in Rumania during the war, was in a civilian plane crash last week. Returning from the Cleveland Air Races with a former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...
Call Me Mister. Gay revue in which quondam G.I.s say hello to civilian life (TIME, April...