Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible and a dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth, a Y. M. C. A. man during World War I, a barnstorming trouper on many a world tour. Countless souls he had won for Jesus. One he remembers well. As he knelt with his convert and asked him, searchingly: "Arthur, what's it mean?", "Gypsy...
Although the personnel of the project is already quite large, the Workshop is holding a meeting at 7:30 o'clock on Monday, in the organization's offices at 46 Holyoke Street, to recruit new members, preferably from the Sophomores and Freshmen classes, although others are not excluded...
Said Witness Krivitsky: "Soviet military intelligence has approximately the same function as the same service of other countries. Its unique feature is that it can recruit members of the Communist parties in the countries in which it operates. The leaders of the Communist Party consider it their duty to aid Soviet military intelligence in its work...
...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
...Berlin the six weeks' course at the Nazi Party School for Brides was cut to four weeks and any German recruit was permitted to marry without the usual lengthy investigation of his race and ancestry on simple presentation of his mobilization card. To keep open as many hospital beds as possible for wounded soldiers, German doctors were ordered to deliver pregnant women at home rather than in hospitals for the duration of the war, except desperate cases of obstetric complications...