Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy pulled out of Shanghai so hastily last April that it failed to give its 800 Chinese civilian employees proper two weeks' notice. Last week, demanding full pay for the past two months (during which they did not work), workers surrounded the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, refused to let anyone leave...
...like many Zionists, he fought in the British army against the Axis, rose to be a major. When the war with the Arabs broke out, Tobiansky, with the full approval of Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...
...years in the Senate, Robert Wagner had indeed had his shining hours. As a driving, unspectacular protagonist of the New Deal, Wagner had sponsored such far-reaching social legislation as the Social Security Act, the U.S. Housing Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Wagner Labor Relations...
...High Commissioner John J. McCloy arrived in Germany last week and opened a new era in the occupation. The new Western German state should be on its feet in September; then a three-man, civilian Allied High Commission must guide its steps. The destination: full German membership in the family of democratic nations...
...Allies will retain certain key powers of control vested in three civilian high commissioners...