Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
...Maryland's Fort Meade went 200 Philadelphia business and professional men, including Republican Senatorial Nominee Jay Cooke. Most publicized encampment was Plattsburg itself, where 810 trainees, many arriving in sleek cars, enrolled at a cost to each of $43.50 for a 30-day regime of study and drill, pork & beans and a 5:45 a.m. bugle. Newshawks and photographers spotted many a notable and socialite among them...
...north the Rock's sheerest face rises above a flat sandy neck, where the British troops drill and play rugby in peacetime. This bit of ground is too small for an airfield and is separated by heavy barbed wire and land mines from the border town of La Linea de la Concepcion alive with Spanish artillery, troops and prostitutes. From this quarter even a horde of German shock troops would have difficulty storming the British guns trained from camouflaged, cement-lined galleries that are cut deep enough (by General Sir Edmund Ironside, the Rock's former commandant...
...Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear into his pet "deep oil" holes. There is a legend that in answer to a cable from...
...State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...