Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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2) The Germans have made full use of the Geneva code provision that prisoners of war (except those of officer rank) can be used for non-military work. This in turn has meant that many prisoners get treated better than civilians because they can produce better.
Many a local board thinks that the only thing needed is more & more soldiers. Some have no recognition of what a modern war involves. Many employers feel it unpatriotic to ask for the deferment of their technical men. Many of the technical men feel that they will be slackers if...
Both the Navy V-1 and the Enlisted Reserve Corps state that failure to maintain satisfactory standing will result in a man's being taken for immediate active duty. The Navy has stated definitely that being put on probation will not be cause for active duty under the V-1...
But only the staunchest Administration followers in Congress were willing to take all the blame lying down. The President had never presented a real, urgent price bill to his Congress. The bill that became law last January-containing the 110% parity provision -had gone to Congress so full of Administration...
The office of the President of the United States was an upstairs study when Rudolph Forster became a temporary clerk in the White House in 1897. McKinley kept him on, and so has every President since. He has broken in each new President to the White House routine, served as...