Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret mission to Dictators Franco and Salazar to enlist their...
...keep their numbers small, the mis-guided advocates of southern dual education, the born-too-late liberals that can defeat the best intended and most soundly are the diverse elements that can defeat the best intended and most soundly constructed program. It is up to the Commission to enlist the aid of educators and institutions, business, press, and radio, and all interested citizens in convincing these voices of the past that a challenge exists above and beyond the level of private interest that must...
When I asked him how many party members he has, he was evasive. He did say they pay 25? a month dues, and call him Chef or Chief. He added: "It is like the army. You have your officers, and when the time comes you enlist your men. I have a keen and loyal staff of officers around me. My biggest problem is to keep them inactive. Every time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still...
This last fact is important because British motives in Palestine are not above suspicion. In her desire to keep her oil concessions and an effective Middle-East sterling block, Britain has encouraged and may continue to aid Arab aspirations. British officers, upon discharge, are being advised to enlist with Arab forces, and, of even more concern, is the immediate possibility that Britain will rapidly and unexpectedly evacuate, Palestine, leaving arms and instigators behind in the vacuum...
...Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...