Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even broader questions come up for this "immediate problem" group. In some cases there is a possibility of postponing induction, though the student may not be aware of it. In other cases the prospective draftee might do better to enlist before he is called. The advice is as varied as the individual situation...
...group of Democrats who had advised their draft-age constituents to enlist, because they might as well start their year's training early, and had pledged to get them out of the Army in a year...
...institute was a new idea, tried for the first time this summer by the U.S. branch of the International Student Service, Eleanor Roosevelt's latest fancy. I.S.S., a 21-year-old student relief organization whose chief present function is "to enlist American students in the struggle against totalitarianism," decided to bring college leaders together to train them for the job. From a list of 80 prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys...
Jack Kelly seized the job with both hands. This week he opened Physical Training headquarters in Philadelphia, announced that he would appoint a woman to toughen U.S. women, would enlist prominent athletes (e.g., Jack Dempsey, Tom Harmon) "to help teach the men and women of America to be strong." He plans to start a toughening-for-defense school in every village, town and city; to organize hiking clubs, calisthenics clubs, softball and soccer clubs, swimming clubs, skating clubs; to open Government clinics to diagnose citizens' physical weaknesses...
...mustaches, but a private after years in the Queen's service ("I was rejuced aftherwards, but, no matther, I was a Corp'ril wanst"). Last week the U.S. Army announced, in effect, that no Mulvaneys were wanted. After their three-year enlistment, regular privates will not be allowed to re-enlist unless they are worthy of promotion to higher grade (i.e., noncommissioned rank) or have specialists' ratings...