Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York for New Yorkers. Enlist...
...Administration attempt to enlist public opinion behind the peace effort came as the A. F. L. - C. I. O. conferees themselves admitted privately that they saw little likelihood of settling immediately their struggle for supremacy...
...urging student councils and university newspapers to take up the cause the committee hopes "to wipe the national campuses clean." Attempts will be made immediately, according to Sachs to enlist State legislatures in the anti-syphilis drive. He urged the passage of laws requiring Wasserman tests before issuance of marriage licenses...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...
...Chairman Sandys soothingly explained, no new party formed. What was sought was a new political group, in which members could keep their party ties while pledging themselves to support: 1) a firmer, anti-dictator British foreign policy; 2) acceleration of British rearmament. Immediate goal, announced Mr. Sandys, was to enlist 100,000 members. To achieve this, the meeting officially titled its organization the Hundred Thousand, set up a recruiting office in London with the Duchess of Atholl as treasurer...