Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he declared: "We must have a treaty navy second to none. The United States must cease leading the disarmament movement by example." He pushed the Vinson Bill authorizing construction of 101 new ships at a cost of half a billion dollars; he upped the Navy's enlisted personnel to 100,000, authorized the creation of aerial landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, threatened to fortify all trans-Pacific naval bases if Japan won parity with the U. S. By the end of 1935 he could say: "I am pleased to report that the Navy...
...accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke up in sharp, open opposition. Eight months after his arrest, he was tried, on such charges as "making agitatory addresses," found guilty, given a suspended sentence. But Adolf Hitler had said: "It is Niemoller or I." The pastor was rearrested, put in Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
National Defense was also relatively uncontroversial. The House last week had up the last of the big rearmament appropriations, $292,695,547 for personnel, new airbases, etc., and to buy 2,290 more planes for the Army Air Corps. The Republicans managed momentarily to strike some $37,000,000 from the bill, on the ground that 1,283 of the proposed ships, intended for reserves, might be obsolete before commissioned. The Democrats rallied, voted the reserve planes back in, passed the whole bill on to the Senate. Striking feature : provision for giving Army pilots their first three months' training...
...Shipping. On the Atlantic and Gulf coasts A. F. of L. mans the docks, C. I. O. mans the ships, and both want the whole hog. On the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges is all but supreme on the docks, has some seagoing personnel, but A. F. of L. has most of the sailors and the teamsters who haul to & from the waterfronts. C. I. O.'s eastern National Maritime Union last week took a grave setback when it gave up its strike against Standard Oil of New Jersey and four other tanker companies, leaving disgruntled Gulf Coast sailors likely...
...will go Brazilian Under Secretary of State Dr. Cyro de Freitas Valle, onetime first secretary of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and a cousin of Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; to Rio de Janeiro will go Dr. Curt Prüfer, onetime German Minister to Ethiopia, chief of the personnel of the German Foreign Office...