Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erratic second son has set out to join the French Foreign Legion. The first time, last summer, he got as far as the Dunkirk recruiting office before changing his mind, decided to open a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead. "I am Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between...
Lloyd Kirkham Garrison had stepped fast in his career. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, which he left at 20 to enlist in the Navy during the War. In 1919 he returned to Cambridge and in three years he had his law degree. To Manhattan he took his young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover...
...Author. Born in 1896, Robert Littell is the great grandson of Eliakim Littell, who founded The Living Age in 1844. His father, Philip Littell, helped found The New Republic. Robert Littell left Harvard to enlist in the American Ambulance Corps, served as secretary to Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration after the War. He has been on the staff of The New Republic, was dramatic critic on the New York Evening Post, the old World. His first book, Read America First, was published in 1926. Candles in the Storm is his second...
...Franz Ferdinand's assassination were worked out. Student Princip, the actual assassin, was designated by Vladimir Gachinovich as his trustiest and most intimate friend. Too intellectual to risk being present when the shots that started the War were fired, Vladimir Gachinovich also did not feel called upon to enlist or fight, stayed on quietly at Lausanne where he peacefully died...
...Roman Catholic Church, they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS WOULD ENLIST ALL FAITHS-Need for Prompt Action to Avert Drastic Penalties Upon Picture Industry Urged in East-Real Danger...