Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Mickey showed up, backed by four cops and a forgotten statute, the boys grew panicky. While 500 people milled around impatiently, Alan Gottlieb '41, H.S.U. president, called up Jerome D. Greene '96, secretary to the Corporation, to enlist his aid in getting the required license...
...leadership away from Mackenzie King.* "No party ... is going to get away with that sort of thing. If they want to show the extent of Canada's war effort, let them show the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who are walking the streets looking for a chance to enlist or find work in industry at a time when the very security of the country is at stake...
...Nebraska's aging George W. Norris rose in the Senate and declared: "Frankly I am worried about the activities of this Bureau." What worried him were recent arrests by G-Men in Detroit of 16 persons on charges of having assisted volunteers to enlist in the Loyalist Army in Spain...
England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...
Explaining that it is impossible for United States citizens to enlist as active soldiers in this country because of the present neutrality law, the letter added that any person who pays his expenses across would be accepted...