Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated. Instead inter-service competition has lowered all Reserve requirements without regard to necessary qualifications. At the same time drives to get volunteers from college age groups raise doubts in the minds of all those told, on the one hand, to remain in college, and, on the other, to enlist...
Cinemactor Ramon Novarro, now 37, asked Mexico's Congress for permission to enlist in the U.S. Army. Novarro, who never became a U.S. citizen, would automatically lose his Mexican citizenship if he enlisted without permission...
Clark Gable, 41, was all set to enlist as a private in the Army Air Forces. His aim: a gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...
Plans to distribute college physicists effectively between the services and industrial research are almost completely non-existent. Although high-frequency men can enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve, no provision has been made for other science concentrators who must fill the many semitechnical jobs in both combatant and noncombatant fields. Badly needed in industrial and government laboratories, even the cream of the electronics crop is at a loss for a clear-cut route to these jobs and the resulting uncertainty has seriously curtailed the available supply of these vital...
...children, to whose natural barbarism the color and mumbo jumbo of Naziism might appeal. "Führer" Anton Adrian Mussert's Dutch imitation of Hitler's Youth Movement, Nationale Jeugdstorm, has doubled the number of its demonstrations and marches, has opened new offices all over Holland to enlist recruits. To show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned a mass youth rally at Roermond. Friederic Schmidt, dictator of the Adolf Hitler Youth Schools, attended. But Roermond townspeople stayed away. Shops were locked up, streets deserted, blackout curtains drawn. While some...