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...printed, Pre-Condition No. 9 read: ". . . It is necessary for the party [to enlist] the best elements of the progressive fighters, who possess enough devotion to be the real representatives of the reactionary proletariat." Next day the paper apologized for "an unforgivable error in our typesetting department [which] confused the sense. [It] should of course have read: 'the revolutionary proletariat.' The editorial collective will take the necessary measures...
Last week, for example, The Boston Traveler topped its front page: "Reds Drive to Enlist Boston Youth; Labor Youth League Invades BU, Harvard Yard." Under this banner, the story mentioned the John Reed Club as spearhead of Red Infiltration here. But it did not go into details on how many Harvard youths had been enlisted by the Drive. Readers acquainted with the John Reed Club would already have known: 1.) that the John Reed Club, a chartered College organization, voted in an open meeting to join the Labor Youth League last month; 2.) that the John Reed Club has existed...
...Daredevil Dutchman." He was one of the first to enlist. The British government was partly responsible. He had gone to England in 1916 to consult with Sunbeam Motors, Ltd., and had discovered, to his astonishment, that his name made him an object of suspicion. The British-who had read U.S. sport pages and had discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned...
...20th Century-Fox). When Willie went marching off, the little town of Punxsutawney gave him a sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...
...Liberals captured only twelve seats, seven of them in Wales. But they got 9% of the popular vote, and could have swung the balance in many constituencies. Most Liberal candidates lean more to the Tories than to the Laborites. If Churchill's attempt to enlist the Liberal vote had succeeded, a combined Tory-Liberal front would have been a formidable combination...