Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Tie" understood that during the War he was a slacker and afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat as Deputy, quarreled with some of his Socialist colleagues, remained friendly with others and is said...
...student at an endowed university owes no service to the world. Humanistic learning, the pursuit of art and letters, he can then claim as his occupation in the social system. But in the present state of the world no matter what type of person he may be, he must enlist in a compulsory service for humanity...
...organizations of the National Tuberculosis Association. The Association does not expect to realize the $18,000,000 which the stamps represent. But it does hope to surpass the $5,300,000 raised last year. The 2,084 local headquarters are utilizing the most insistent names they can enlist for their collection work. In the Manhattan district the name is Thomas William Lament; in Chicago, David Forgan; in St. Louis, John E. Edwards; in Boston, Dr. John B. Hawes II; in Cleve land, Dr. Robert Bishop; in San Francisco, William H. Crocker; in New Orleans, Dr. Chaille Jamison...
Every student in College wanted to enlist, but the faculty protested and the number was finally limited to 83. A few men from Norwich, Bowdoin, and Union were included. A great demonstration was accorded the cavalrymen as they left for White River Junction in carriages...
L.A.C.M. will emit publicity, maintain a fact-finding bureau, enlist the aid of prominent persons, help its constituent colleges raise money. It now has 235 member-colleges, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, with an average enrolment of 600, average assets...