Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a few Annapolis midshipmen who elect to join the naval air service, the U. S. Navy recruits its pilots through the Naval Reserve. At 13 Reserve air stations-Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Opa Locka (Miami), Kansas City, Glenview (Chicago), Seattle, etc.-an ever-increasing tide of would-be fliers is rolling in. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that three more Reserve stations would soon be opened (at New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta), also supplied some details about the Navy's expanding air training program...
...show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours, our friends to share it. our enemies to shun it, our men to man it." While lights fade into a cyclorama of a British battleship riding a surging sea, spectators join in singing Land of Hope and Glory, burst into loud applause...
Purpose of Lina's visit is to convince skeptical U. S. doctors, especially Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association, that she is really the greatest prodigy in medical history. After she sees the Chicago doctors, it was rumored that Lina would join a road show...
...American News paper Writers Association. Organized one week after the Guild convention adjourned, A. N. W A. was the handiwork of Red-hating William Leonard Laurence, able science editor of the New York Times. Armed with a charter from A. F. of L. (which the Guild left to join C. I. O. in 1937), Rebel Laurence promptly put in a claim with Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger to have his union designated sole bargaining agent for Times editorial workers...
Trade or Craft? Of the 1,467 Times employes who are eligible to join the Guild, about 350 are actual newsmen. The rest are advertising men, stenographers, file clerks, copy boys, scrub women, etc. The Guild claims 600 members on the Times, some 400 of them paid up. Bill Laurence holds that no more than 75 of these Times Guildsmen are editorial workers, claims that A. N. W. A. already has twice as many...