Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...that Americans had something to work for and give for, they worked and gave as they had in pioneer days when the wilderness tried to swallow them up, in Civil War days when the Union would have fallen apart without them. Thousands rushed to enlist (see p. 8). Other thousands helped in other ways: > At the Treasury in Washington so many gifts of money arrived that clerks worked overtime to acknowledge them, had no time left to tot them up. One man sent $100 he had won at a movie bank night. A hairdresser sent an entire...
...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 Selective Service has superseded the old hit-or-miss enlistment system; 2) the Navy, advertising for college men to be trained as officers, promised they could finish their course before going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...