Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole thing overboard (TIME, Jan. 31). The prerogative-conscious State Department, which suggested PRC in the first place, then watched it get out of hand, is moving in too. The international oil companies involved have achieved a very neat compromise between their deep and antithetic desires: 1) to enlist strong Government support in the Middle East and 2) to avoid any direct Government interest in their production and refining operations. The U.S. Government will now have good reason to remain vitally interested in the area.* But the industry is violently split into "ins" & "outs" in looking forward to major...
...Persuaded Tennessee's able young Representative Albert Gore (who dropped by on post-induction furlough) that good men can be more useful in Congress than in the Army. For the benefit of other anxious-to-enlist legislators, the President announced flatly that no man could legally be both Congressman and soldier...
Then there are eyes, which are mostly an ordinary brown or blue. Sixteen claimed hazel, and 11 said their eyes were a fiery, mysterious green, while three favored languid, limpid grey. Age was probably the most scattered statistic. Although girls today can enlist from 49 down to 20, this batch was 20 to 40 and had birth certificates to prove it. Most were between...
...general warning about promptness, Perkins gave a special warning to the 128 of the group who have designated the Navy as their choice of service. Should they receive notification of their acceptance, having already passed both the mental and physical exams, he said, they should not rush out to enlist or be inducted if they are at home. By waiting until they are back in Cambridge before enlisting, they will have a good chance of being sent to Harvard for their V-12 training...
...Back Bayer was a young (26) poet, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., son of a retired naval commander, scion of a famed family with members in every war since the Revolution. No ordinary conscientious objector, Lowell twice tried to enlist, later reversed his views because he decided the bombings of total war are unethical. So he refused to serve "as a matter of principle." He was sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison...