Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short farevell speech, attended a reception, held a housewarming at the two-story, white stucco Wainwright house in San Antonio (named "Fiddler's Green," after the mythical heaven to which the souls of all cavalrymen are supposed to go).* Then it was all over. "Skinny" Wainwright was a civilian...
...Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He was elected national commander-a post which pays $10,000 plus $40,000 in expense money-by acclamation...
...nearby town of Csongrad and tried again. The Reds attacked Pfeiffer and one of his lieutenants with bicycle pumps, shoemaker's pliers and clubs. Pfeiffer was taken home "half dead," his friends said. A U.S. Army doctor who tried to examine him was waved away; even Hungarian civilian doctors were barred. A Communist-appointed police surgeon took over the case, pronounced the patient's injuries superficial. If that was so, Pfeiffer's wife wanted to know, why had her husband not regained consciousness? Oh, said the police surgeon, somebody had given him "too much medicine...
...nine years as dean of the Harvard Law School, Aztec-faced James M. Landis acquired a certain ponderosity of language. As director of the Office of Civilian Defense in 1942, Landis ordered federal buildings to obtain "obscuration . . . either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination." President Roosevelt laughingly rewrote this as ". . . put something across the window ... or turn out the lights...
...Derogatory Information." Actually, it had been going on, in a smaller way, even before Harry Truman first ordered Government agencies to root out their subversive-e.g., Communist and fellow-traveling-workers in March. The Army had fired over 100 civilian employees suspected of disloyalty, the Navy at least 23, the Labor Department five. None of the purgees had complained publicly. But when the State Department suddenly ousted ten of its workers because "derogatory information" had been received about them, some pertinent questions began to be asked...