Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great newspaper in search of prestige and influence has sought to besmirch me. They have invaded the sanctity and privacy of my home and sought to enlist the efforts of criminals and those of low character. The people of Kansas will resent such attempts...
...broke out?the Civil War?Walter Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand is 69 years of age and was born at Lyon, the city of which Premier Herriot is mayor. It was his ambition to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, but being only 15 years of age he was unable to enlist. Struck by his ignorance of foreign countries he decided at that time to become a diplomat...
With a book in one hand and a sword in the other, Anatole France served through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870; tried, aged 70, to enlist during the Great War. After the War, he was for a while a champion of communism, but later changed his mind...
...John W. Davis College League I see no reason why you should change your name. Your organization can serve all the purposes that the League would serve at Harvard and have the advantage of a well organized body. If you can arrange to hold meetings and to enlist all your members individually, as members of the John W. Davis National League you will have served the very purpose for which the League is organized. Best wishes...