Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council Committee on the General Education Report will hold a reorganizational meeting at 5 o'clock Monday in the Student Council Room of Phillips Brooks House. The Council is especially anxious to enlist those men away during the war years...
...meet this crisis, the Vatican looks to the ideological and material support of the U.S. To enlist U.S. support, it looks chiefly to the devout but uniquely American career and character of Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry's gamble may be won-or lost. These days...
When war came John Amery turned up in Vichy France. He spoke over the German radio, tried to enlist British prisoners for action against the Russians. In spite of John Amery's family connections, it took British justice just eight minutes to accept his plea of guilty, sentence John Amery to be hanged...
...British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx. At Oxford, Laski joined the Fabian Society, campaigned for woman suffrage, was a brilliant student in his spare time. When World War I came, Laski disapproved, but tried to enlist. He was turned down because of a weak heart. He went to lecture at Canada's venerable McGill University, there got himself thoroughly disliked for attacking War Prime Minister Lloyd George...