Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvador, not much bigger than Maryland, with a population of about 1,500,000, was one of the Central American countries that did not declare war on Germany. As a neutral she was invited by the League to join up at the outset, signed the Covenant in March 1920, but she rapidly proved herself a troublesome member. Soon she began to haggle about the amount of her contribution to the League, later raised objections to the cost of the International Labor Office being included in the League's budget. Why El Salvador worries so much about her League dues...
...given the opportunity of choosing a regiment by its regalia. Special blue "walking-out" uniforms were provided. Out-of-workers were warmly invited to spend a free holiday with the Army. Prospective Tommies were escorted through spick & span, comfortably-furnished barracks. A trial enlistment scheme whereby young men could join up for six months was inaugurated. Such chores as scrubbing and peeling potatoes were eliminated from regular military duties. Finally, haircuts and new equipment, formerly paid for by each soldier, were thrown in free...
Down the coast went Mussolini to join King Vittorio Emanuele III, Crown Prince Umberto, and a coterie of Italy's best military brains as the war games got under way near Marsala with fifty thousand "Red" troops trying to capture the island from a "Blue" defense force...
...gave the impression of having said his final say on science, because neither he nor Science knew where they were going. Renewed by the mathematical impredictability of the electron, the old war between Determinism and Free Will was again going full blast, but Sullivan could not bring himself to join those who aligned themselves cocksurely on one side or the other. He devoted himself to writing novels, lived in a small cottage in Surrey, neglected to the last to take regular medical treatment. Suffering from locomotor ataxia, he died in an advanced stage of syphilis...
...Dictatorship." Harry Bridges, president of the Pacific Coast District of the International Longshoremen's Association and biggest figure in maritime labor on the Pacific Coast, leads the drive of C.I.O. in the West. In Tacoma, Wash, the Long shoremen's union not only refused to join C.I.O. but wrote to all I.L.A. locals on the Coast...