Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 15,000 Poles were recruited in France to fight on the Western Front by energetic General Wladyslaw Sikorski before he was named Premier last fortnight of the expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard...
...numberless agencies for this or that. The new bureau is not only large; it gives every promise of being tremendously efficient. The carefully selected corps of tutors will certainly be capable of offering a better brand of aid than any of its competitors along Massachusetts Avenue--which cannot possibly recruit so many experts. It will certainly answer every conceivable need for honest tutoring...
...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...
...Nice, dark, scowling Ernst Rüdiger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...
...Charta is one on academic freedom. Finding traces of anti-Semitism among the faculty, President Conant and his committee sternly directed that appointments be made "solely on grounds of professional qualifications." Because "a university breeds its own conservatism," they agreed that Harvard should go out of its way to recruit "thoughtful rebels" for its faculty...