Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone to join the army at Detroit, turned back only when news of the Americans' easy surrender there convinced him that the army did not amount to much any more...
Rise from you labor now? Enlist...
...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...danced doggedly for two years, gave it up because the students were forbidden to ride bicycles or horses. Back in art school he switched from painting to sculpture because he liked the physical exertion of carving. At 17, he decided he was old enough to enlist in the British Army but that year the War ended. He left home, got along for ten years on a continuous succession of scholarships. As a student in Rome he lived in a thieves' den. In Naples he was nearly murdered. In 1927 he felt that his career was launched at last when...
...Northwest, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was scrambling for members everywhere from lumber camps to furniture factories. Out to enlist every Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. employe, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers adopted a system of Class B memberships for non-members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have...