Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatically as possible as the underdog (which indeed he is), Ethiopia's smart Emperor stood for a long moment to receive his people's cheers, then disappeared behind his pink veil. Meanwhile in the U. S. the Negro Afro news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle...
Expositor & Homiletic Review: "The Church has hurt the income of the motion picture barons. . . . Retaliation is only to be expected. . . . Take a special offering, enlist your adult and junior organizations...
Same day tall, fair Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and chunky, dark Bruno Mussolini, 17, the youngest regularly licensed air pilots in Italy, called on their father as Minister of Aviation, to enlist for fighting service against Ethiopia. Fascists present said that Il Duce received his sons with a visible effort to master his feelings as a father, grunted a wordless assent to their request, dashed his signature upon their papers of enlistment...
Chicagoans first began to like Marshall III in 1917 when, after spending most of his youth at Eton and Cambridge, he returned to enlist as a buck private in the U. S. Army. They liked him even more when he returned from France a cavalry captain and, despite unlimited capital and numerous business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward...
...hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have to do a little judicious nipping to preserve "the cause of Greek independence...