Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music of a really brilliant recruit. His transcription shows the hand of a master in every bar." Last week Sir Henry admitted that Paul Klenovsky was an alias for an English musician. His name: Sir Henry Wood...
...Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores' union on the Stuyvesant Docks. He stubbornly stands for his rights, makes a bad impression at the police station...
During the War Jack Dempsey got into trouble by posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter...
...political pickpockets who preyed upon the 20th President have yet to recruit a Warren G. Harding Foundation.* No body of nostalgic businessmen has so far formed a Calvin Coolidge Foundation. But the bosoms of thousands of professing political idealists burned last week with memories of the passionate philosopher who guided the nation from 1913 to 1921. Ten years after Thomas Woodrow Wilson's death, twelve years after he had been taken from the White House dying from heartbreak and other diseases, Woodrow Wilson Clubs foregathered in 124 U. S. towns and cities to celebrate the 77th anniversary of their...
...product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales on newspaper advertising in the locality covered. The manufacturer also agrees to pay Goodwin Corp. 1½% of the volume of new business. Goodwin Corp. has sent 900 agents into the field to recruit "Good News Broadcasters" from the churches. Last month 30,000 had been signed up, last week 130,000, with more & more names piling up in the Chicago office whose staff now includes 116 employes. Goodwin Corp. promises to issue its list of products when 250,000 Good News Broadcasters have...