Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesse Holman Jones, wealthy "angel" of the Democratic convention at Houston, was suggested as a ticket-mate for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wits in Kansas said a Smith-Jones ticket "would enlist the support of the country's two largest families." Colyumist George Rothwell Brown of the Washington Post wrote: "If Jones of Texas is nominated . . . with Smith, we advise the Republican party to draft Mr. Cohen...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...
...shoulder, and I know that the peasantry would fly to arms to repel the invader." When news of Pilsudski's charges reached Kovno, harassed Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva to enlist the Council's aid. Simultaneously, Marshal Pilsudski was said to have declared that he might "at any moment" hurry after Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, who was charged with representing his country on the Council. Even stolid Swiss were appalled at the possibility that Premiers Pilsudski and Valdemaras, both choleric...
...within is the work of Dr. C. T. Erickson who will lecture in Phillips Broks House next Tuesday evening on "The Menace of Albania to World Peace, and its cure." In his work Dr. Erickson is assisted by B. J. Snyder '16, and is in the United States to enlist the sympathy and aid of Americans in his American School in Albania...
...only real Reds are the Communists and Anarchists, few in number and decreasingly attractive to Socialists. Prosperity in the U. S. and the periodic disorderliness of irresponsible members of their party seem to blight such sympathies as they enlist through being periodically persecuted. William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne (the Daily Worker) and the late Charles Ruthenberg (TIME, March 14) (Communists), and the late Sacco & Vanzetti (Anarchists) are the best known names among them. For the most part they are hot-eyed men of obscure pursuits and little estate, intense indealists as often as scoundrels; lacking organization as badly...