Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote to him all during the war about TIME's Pony and other editions they were getting overseas. They deluged him with battle flags, daggers, and other souvenirs of their gratitude. Fran Pratt is rightfully proud of the fact that more than 400,000 of them are now civilian subscribers and newsstand buyers of TIME and that they still write...
Though disguised as a civilian program, UMT will serve to keep the military caste in power. The program is to be under the auspices of the Regular Army, and the training given in how not to think is the antithesis of the individuality of the democratic system. For military reasons too, conscription is unfeasible. The advantages of having a great, unwieldy pool of men half-trained in obsolete weapons are non-existent, especially in face of all the new implications of atomic warfare...
Such grievances were embarrassing when the U.S. was applying for sole trusteeship over 48,000 other backward peoples on former mandated islands (TIME, Feb. 24). So Navy Secretary James Forrestal appointed a civilian commission* to advise what should be done...
University Naval representatives will participate in this week's recruiting drive for the civilian Naval Reserve, NROTC headquarters announced last night. The drive aims at creating a pool of 1,500,000 men who can be ready for emergencies...
James M. Landis, 47, leathery CAB chairman, onetime Roosevelt Brain Truster, wartime Civilian Defense chief, was sued for divorce by wife Stella in Salem, Mass., after nearly 21 years. She charged desertion, asked custody of their two daughters...