Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flash in the pan, the discussion was elaborately organized to enlist the opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain...
When the A. I. L. was formed in October with large chapters at Princeton and M. I. T. as well as at Harvard, it was "dedicated to the purpose of consolidating the determination of American youth to keep out of the European war." Promptly League leaders sought to enlist a huge membership which could in times of crisis be converted into an effective pressure group...
...four years, Bob Taft grubbed earnestly in the old city firm of Maxwell & Ramsey. In 1917, he twice tried to enlist for officers' training, was twice rejected (eyesight). He met Herbert Hoover, became assistant counsel of the U. S. Food Administration, finally went abroad with Mr. Hoover's American Relief Administration. For his relief work in Europe he got Polish, Belgian, Finnish decorations, which he never wears...