Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country back to prosperity," Edward Young Clarke, onetime Imperial Kleagle and chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, was committed to Chicago Psychopathic Hospital for examination. His commitment was requested by the executive board of Esskaye Inc., an organization founded by Promoter Clarke for which he proposed to enlist 2,000,000 members at $100 membership fees. Said Hospital Superintendent Francis J. Gerty six days later: "I find no evidence of psychosis or mental disease. This opinion is not official, and it will be necessary for several other alienists to submit their findings before Clarke's status is determined...
...nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty windowpane" is the King of Denmark's excessively tall, sardonic, adventurous cousin Aage. Last week Prince Aage startled smart Paris by announcing: "With my wife I am going back to Morocco. The French Government has kindly permitted me to re-enlist in the Foreign Legion with my former rank of captain. I shall be on active service. My business career, which began in Paris a year ago, has proved infinitely disappointing...
...order to encourage absentee voting by Democratic supporters in the University, the Harvard Democratic Club has begun a drive to enlist voters who have residence outside of Massachusetts to register during the summer in their home states, it was announced last night by D. M. Sullivan '33, president of the Harvard Democratic Club. Certain states do not permit absentee voting, but the majority of them do, provided that the voter registers in time and complies with local laws...
...that "all the trouble hereabouts is due to the young men who are only one in 20 of us. All the rest are loyal and we pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure by permitting us to enlist again in the army and the police." Lastly the old chief made traditional "presents of fidelity" to Lord Willingdon-a long musket (its butt inlaid with gold), a set of carved daggers, some mountain goats and some fat-tailed sheep...
...Representing the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Harlan Miller called on the President to enlist his aid in getting out 50 million voters for this year's election (total 1928 vote: 36,879,414). The plan involves a system of State quotas and proclamation by Governors...