Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commit themselves, and the capitalists of Germany and Italy took advantage of their hesitancy to install a regime of violent social reaction. Since the change was not a revolutionary transfer, but merely an assertion by the governing classes of their own actual power, it was not difficult to enlist, for the purpose, the support of a great number of the common people dependent on them...
...plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck for a five-day week at a $25 minimum. Mr. Ford retaliated by closing his Chester plant indefinitely. The strikers moved on the Ford plant at Edgewater, N.J., attempted to enlist its 2,000 workers in a sympathy strike, talked of closing every Ford factory in the land. Observers predicted that before matters reached such a pass, Henry Ford would shut up shop entirely, let the workers stew in their own juice. No law could force him, or any other manufacturer...
...laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania Hicksite Quaker 52 years ago, Smedley Butler is "still one in good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager to enlist, threatened to run away unless his parents gave their permission. Anomalous Quakers, they complied, and as his father was a Congressman. Smedley started his martial career as a 2nd lieutenant. Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life...
...into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited by the Treaty of St. Germain to 30,000 soldiers who must enlist for twelve years) is far too small to guard Austria's frontiers. In Paris shaggy Premier Edouard Daladier, outraged by Germany's reaction to the French protest last week, gave correspondents to understand that France will back Austria to the limit, supporting if necessary a shorter enlistment period...
...will have to clean their own rooms, make their beds, work once a week on the school grounds. If enrollment goes to 150, tuition will be cut to $1,075. If it goes to 200, the price will be $950. Thus, if each Tome boy or his parents will enlist one recruit, as Headmaster Shortlidse urged them to do. the school will be filled and everyone's pockets will be less empty...