Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maddened troops is a source of great shame to responsible men in the Japanese Army and Government. Along his way, White learned some good reasons for that behavior. He was told that most of the Japanese soldiers in Shansi have been there over two years. They have had no furlough, no home leave, not even a Peking weekend...
Whenever a U. S. Ambassador arrives in Tokyo, whether for the first time or after home leave, he is tendered a dinner of welcome by the America-Japan Society, a frequent sounding board for the two countries' relationships. Five years ago Ambassador Grew returned to Tokyo after a furlough. The America-Japan Society's welcoming speech was made by suave, old Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, one of Japan's most subtle diplomats, then Privy Councilor. Viscount Ishii amazed everyone by saying that a war between Japan and the U. S. was remote unless "the U. S. ever attempted...
...last week many Communist deputies and other prominent French Communists (plus many obscure ones) had been arrested, indicted or were being hunted. The most prominent ones were still in hiding, however. French Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez, sent to the front with an engineer regiment, got a 24-hour furlough, took French leave and made a separate peace. Colorful Andre Marty, who once led a French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice, could not be found. Also under indictment...
...reduced appropriation ($1,477,000,000) pared his rolls from 2,200,000 as of last week toward 1,800,000 by mid-September. By September i he must discharge 650,000 (one in three) WPAsters who have been on the rolls 18 months or longer. Off "on furlough" must go 56,500 of Ohio's 166,700; 62,200 of Pennsylvania's 153,000; 22,900 of New Jersey's 67,900; 22,400 of California's 89,800; 11,200 of Alabama's 42,100; 400 of smallest Nevada...
...Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement of all WPAers unable to get work, 3) a "furlough status" for those finding temporary private employment...