Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abroad to hire foreign mercenaries, it had long filled out its ranks with aliens living in the U.S. (In World War II, an honorable service record gave aliens citizenship in three years instead of five.) Last week, going a step further, the Defense Department announced that it would soon recruit 2,500 carefully screened displaced persons living in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...about to set up a mercenary Foreign Legion. The 81st Congress had laid down some specific safeguards in passing the 1950 Lodge-Philbin Act, which had been conceived and argued into law by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He thought that the U.S. was missing an opportunity to recruit fighting men, with something to fight for, among exiles from Iron Curtain countries living as displaced persons in Germany. No more than 2,500 "skilled military specialists and technicians," unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 35, will be accepted. The men are not to serve in national groups...
During spring vacation, DeSa will go to New York to talk to sailing enthusiasts about the voyage and to try to recruit a crew of at least four to man his onemasted cutter, the Viking...
...plans left out his company commander's practiced eyes. Out to inspect the close-order drill class, Captain W. A. ("I'm a bug on proper uniform") Gorman quickly spied the odd bulge bobbing under Smith's jacket. He stopped the platoon and commanded the recruit to unveil the unmilitary mystery. When Gorman, also a steady TIME-reader, saw the reason for the bulge, he ordered Smith to "share his knowledge" with the platoon by reading aloud while marching...
...cheerful little musicomedy without enough ingenuity to support its good intentions. It has a droll notion of treating milkmen as an elite corps with pride, traditions and loyalties roughly approximating those of the U.S. Military Academy. Jimmy Durante cuts a fine figure of a milkman's milkman, and Recruit Donald O'Connor burns to win the right to take his girl strolling down Buttermilk Lane (the dairy's Flirtation Walk...