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Word: noncombatancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered plugger, Murphy has no hobbies except work, has built his entire reputation within the Burlington system. Before joining the Burlington in 1914, he strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Hand on the Throttle | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...continuing aspect of U.S. military aid to Chiang is MAGIC, the corps of 750 officers & men of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in China. In theory operating under strict orders to remain "neutral," MAGIC has in practice been advising-at the noncombat level-the only military establishment it could reach, the Nationalist army. A fortnight ago, MAGIC's commander, Major General John P. Lucas, with whom Chiang had long been dissatisfied, was relieved by bluff, hearty Major General David G. Barr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gesture | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Fruit Salad | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Carl Childress [TiME, May 27] .is entitled to his opinion' of my article "The Conqueror" which you quoted in the May 6 TIME. He is not entitled to his gratuitous slur upon all chaplains when he refers to them as holders of noncombat commissions who came safely and comfortably through the war under the protection of combat soldiers. . . . Chaplains did hold noncombat commissions in that they carried no weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Roosevelt proposal was made in his message vetoing the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, later passed over his veto. The Roosevelt language: "I recommend that the Selective Service Act be amended so that persons may be inducted into noncombat military service up to the age of 65 years. This will enable us to induct into military service all persons who engage in strikes or Stoppages or other interruptions of work in plants in possession of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Down with Truman! | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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