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Just how many men tried to enlist and were turned away, it was impossible to say. Military men figured that some 170,000 men had volunteered in the first two weeks.* Not more than one in three was taken...
...spite of the chilly statement of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, fortnight ago, that the Army will soon accept no more volunteers, the War Department went right on recruiting; and the rush to enlist continued through the third week...
...pugnacious little featherweight, Cail McCaughey, tried to enlist in Philadelphia, was turned down-too small. An Army recruiting officer told him to try the Navy upstairs. "Nuts," said Featherweight McCaughey. "I was up there three times. And three times I got thrown...
...from an Admiral under whom he once served as a petty officer, was accepted. > Told by the Navy that his son James was missing in the attack on Hawaii, William J. Leight Sr., marched down to a recruiting office in Los Angeles with William J. Leight Jr., saw him enlist in the Navy. Young Leight asked for duty in the Pacific...
...World War I most colleges encouraged students to enlist, made degree-getting easy by giving academic credit for military drill, even Army service. Now conditions are more favorable to college attendance: !) Selective Service has superseded the old hit-or-miss enlistment system; 2) the Navy, advertising for college men to be trained as officers, promised they could finish their course before going into service; 3) President Roosevelt himself has urged collegians to stay in school until called...