Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympic Games were over last year. Dictator Hitler got down in earnest to a rigorous anti-Catholic campaign. Catholic confessional schools were suppressed at Württemberg, in the Saar, in the Palatinate, and a State Youth Law suppressed surviving Catholic Youth organizations by ordering all children to join the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth...
Distracting though it might be, Economy was only a froth on the turbulent riptide of Congressional feeling about the President's Court Plan. Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, who sped South last week to join his father at Fort Worth, and Postmaster General Farley, who boarded the Presidential special at Indianapolis, reportedly were both dispatched by Senate leaders to tell the President that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break...
...route is now lined with soldiers giving their buttons a last polish with their cuffs. Out of the corner of his mouth one of them says to an old lady in the crowd: ''Why don't you join the Army, Ma? You'd get a better view. . . ." The King's Company of the Grenadier Guards proudly flaunt their new King's Color...
...commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with base pay of $4,000 a year, plus $156 a month if the chaplain has a family. Most chaplains are married, but not a few join the service to get away from church suppers and sewing clubs. Others like to wear a uniform, relish the security of a chaplaincy as compared with a poor parish, or are eager-especially since the founding of the CCC-to do God's work among men who are comparatively insulated...
...students. In pursuance of these objectives the Council plans to hold a meeting at the beginning of the next school year at which instructors in Economics will give detailed information concerning courses and course work. Further meetings will be held at which noted economists will speak, faculty members will join students in informal discussion, and students will be given opportunity to voice criticism and suggestion...