Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Josephine Baker riot-inciters." Winchell reported darkly that "newspapermen are checking the tip that one of the complainants against the Stork Club (and her husband) helped incite and participated in the Paul Robeson-Peekskill riots." Then he reported that in 1935 Josephine had declared: "I am willing to recruit a Negro army to help Italy" in Mussolini's war on Ethiopia...
...worker at the plant presented him with a copy of "Think Weekly," now "Commonsense," one of the widest-circulating hate-sheets in the country. Incensed at its contents, Hall went in a rage to see the publisher, Conde McGinley. As soon as he entered the office, McGinley tried to recruit Hall for his staff. He told him of "Think Weekly's" plans, and outlined the underground Fascist network in America...
...Fred M. Walker, who has combined coaching with a Chicago brokerage business for the last 35 years has "sent" more than 40 varsity athletes from the Chicago area to New Haven since 1941. Walker, 1905 blocking back for the University of Chicago, told the CRIMSON yesterday, "I wouldn't recruit. The thing you have to do in the West is to persuade men that Yale is a man's school." He has been a singularly successful salesman, especially with his sons. Blake Walker, Yale '43, was first-string quarterback, and All-American end Paul Walker captained the '44 eleven...
...truth is that Clarence "Big Lord" Fauntleroy, a six-foot, 200-pound tackle, seems to be about the only new recruit working his way up toward the starting eleven. His competition consists of seniors Chuck Metzler and Ay Pyott. On defense, the non-pronounce-able Frank Miklavzina and Jim Jerome--both seniors--fill the bill nicely...
Lanza perked up after Silver arranged to get him out of the MPs and into Special Services as a singer. They became fast buddies and fellow performers. Then came a chance for an audition before Sergeant Peter Lind Hayes, the nightclub and TV comic, who was traveling through to recruit performers for an Army Air Force show, On the Beam. In spite of his rare protective talents as a chowhound and goldbrick, Lanza's throat was so raw with Texas dust that he could not sing. Silver, who was already selected for the show, devised a ruse...