Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential, would...
Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals noted that the League aims "to enlist the support and co-operation of legal advisers, statesmen and legislators in effecting the lawful repeal and amendment of State and Federal statutes which deal with the prevention of conception." Such activity is not reprehensible, in the tax board's opinion, but neither is it charitable, scientific or educational. Hence Mr. Slee must pay taxes on at least part of his League donations...
...immediately after his conversion in 1876, although he could neither read nor write; and it was then that he began his practice, which he has followed to the present day, of singing hymns to his audience when his vocabulary failed. When the Great War broke out, he tried to enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received the decoration of the order of the British government and the personal thanks of the King...
...essential to progress, have been very largely allowed to drop. The Museum has relapsed into a state of isolation which is regrettable. The reciprocal loans for purposes of study, which are universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist the interest of as large a number of persons as possible. The staff, are ready and anxious to undertake the rearrangement and labelling but they felt it was beyond their power unless they could be provided with trained assistance and working facilities. The income of the Museum was not only...
Evangelists of the Methodist Episcopal Church South lamented last week that they had no jobs. Said Rev. John Patty of Chattanooga, addressing the convention of evangelists at Memphis: "Unemployment . . . has reached serious proportions and something must be done to enlist the sympathy of the . . . ministers, to open the doors of the churches...