Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred G. Clark, President of Fred G. Clark ("Hyvis") Oil Co., music writer, wit, comedy player in the Hermit Club's annual frolic. Cried Crusader Clark: "We're not wet, but we are opposed to things as they are today." The Crusaders pledged $50,000 to recruit 100,000 young Clevelanders to work for Temperance as contrasted to Prohibition, planned to organize similar "battalions" in all cities of 25,000 or more. Their organization model: The American Legion. Potent young Crusaders already enrolled: Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., John Hay Whitney, William Phillip Carr, Charles Augustus Otis, Dan Rhodes...