Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Trained Civil Populace...
...army reserves and the navy reserves are organized on the same theory, that of providing a trained civil populace to form around the regular army in a time of what both the War Department and the Department of the Navy refer to euphemistically as "national emergency...
...boards) would have to hear any & all complaints against nearly anything which the affected portion of the U. S. Government's 920,310 employes have done, may do or decide to do. As an extreme instance: any U. S. employe could appeal against demotion, discharge, changes in the Civil Service Commission's innumerable rules...
Greece, which endured a civil strife, armed invasion and blockade before she was persuaded to enter the last war on the Allied side, again faced the prospect of losing her strategic base Salonika, which lies just 100 miles from the Albanian border. Her premier and dictator, John Metaxas, who was deported by the Allies in 1917 as a German political agent, is an admirer of Hitler. His people, grown poorer under totalitarianism, prefer the Allies, particularly France. Given a chance to choose her side, Greece would probably have a revolution deciding. But her opinion would very likely not be asked...
Plan E provides for a city manager selected and responsible to the Council. He would run the city. prepare the budget, and appoint subordinates according to civil service laws, while the Mayor would be shorn of his veto and appointment powers. The City Council, reduced to nine men, would be elected by proportional representation...