Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unsuccessful last fortnight were a group of Senate silverites who tried to enlist the support of President Roosevelt for legislation to up the metal's price from 45? to $1.29 per oz. by huge treasury purchases. Before their White House visit, however, hard money Senators had already made what they hoped would be a strategic move to head off Inflation by the silver route. Adopted by the Senate was a resolution calling upon Secretary Morgenthau to supply a list of all big silver owners. Unlike gold, silver is not an illegal private possession but if it could be shown...
...escape the conclusion that they mean not merely peace with honor, but also peace with profit. They are taking up the well-known and slightly nauseating White Man's Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...
...effort to ensure the publication of the Pictorial Pageant of America for persons of limited means, its publisher, the Yale University Press, is conducting a drive here to enlist private subscriptions. Each of the fifteen volumes of the work takes up a different aspect of American life...
...their own contribution to offer America as a picturesque and well-behaved branch organization with all the badges and regalia of the Elks; Odd-Fellows, and the Legion, but also good-behavior and disinterestedness. Their program is bright and entertaining, as desired. But before the Daughters can hope to enlist youth, especially students in a program of "talking America up," faith in government, and country; they will have to yank themselves out of the political picture and indulge in some honest introspection and in the historical study of America from the time of the Funding Fathers to the present...
Beryl M. McHam, a native of Sapulpa, Okla., enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army on March 28. 1917 and went overseas with the A. E. F. In the Argonne, from which only 15 members of his company of 250 emerged alive, he was wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where...