Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another U.S. flyer, Dahl headed for Canada early in World War II to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a squadron leader (equals U.S. major) and married a Canadian girl, belatedly explaining that his marriage to wife Edith had never been exactly solemnized, from a legal point of view. Before the war ended, Whitey was in trouble again, charged with selling government pistols, compasses, lamps and radios on the black market while in command of a station in Brazil. He got off with no penalty but a discharge...
...Poujadists hope to enlist the support of the student League for Reaction, and the student Monarchists, and the student Apathy League to their cause, under the leadership of James Cronin, local merchant, and to move into the national political arena behind Governor J. Bracken Lee of Utah when their mission here is accomplished...
Students who can no longer enroll in the R.O.T.C. should enlist in the Ready Reserve immediately, and thereby start eliminating their reserve obligation, Col. Trever N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said yesterday...
Phog then called in reinforcements, managed to enlist the help of 1) Negro Concert Singer Etta Moten, a Kansas alumna, who wrote to the Chamberlains, 2) Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about...
...Reserve Forces Act last August, it provided an alternative way for those under twenty years of age to fulfill their military obligations. Working under the principle that the United States should have a small standing army supported by trained reserves, legislators hoped the Act would induce young men to enlist in the reserves for eight years, limiting their active service to only six months...