Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight at 8 o'clock the Crimson will open its doors to members of the Sophomore class who wish to enter the fall competition for the News and Business Boards. The tryouts beginning today represent a last opportunity for any man in '42 to join the News or Business staffs of the Crimson...
...prevail now in Berlin or that a British naval attempt at the Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march against Berlin, even if a shallow-draft armada should push through. Besides submarines, the Gate-crashers would now have to cope with large minefields at the outlet of the three narrow channels to the Baltic, as well as bombing planes...
...poster outside an enlistment office in Newark, N. J. had to be taken down last week. Reason: It was too effective. Its screaming eagle and covey of zooming pursuit planes made every recruit want to join the Air Corps. To lean, soft-spoken Major Thomas B. Woodburn, this was cause for quiet satisfaction. With the U. S. Army upped to 227,000 men by Presidential proclamation, it is Tom Woodburn's job to boom recruiting. He paints posters to that end, rejoiced to hear that his latest was so attractive...
...bureau on Governor's Island, off Manhattan's southern tip, turns out recruiting sales talks for radio programs. These tweak a prospect's ear with You're in the Army Now and The Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence: "See the glamorous tropics, the Orient. . . . This is a wonderful opportunity...
...Greene will not say this outright. America need not join the fight until "issues vitally affecting our national interests" are at stake. But here Mr. Greene's interpretation of what these issues are leaves America very little choice. For it is his opinion that a "final victory of German force over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country." Here, then, is the vital issue...