Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional German seminars in student government and self-help are being plauned by the international Committee of the National Students Association for next summer. Robert L. Fischelia '49, 2L, director of lest year's seminar, is again organizing this year's trip and expects to recruit interested students from the College and Radcliffe to assist in is administration and participate in the seminar...
...military can hardly be blamed for civilian inflation; but the military has shown little ingenuity in stretching its dollar to make up for rising costs. The Army, for example, had been issuing six pairs of trousers to each new recruit-simply because it thought that Marines got six pairs apiece. Not until two years ago did the Army learn that the Marines issued only three pairs -and that many an Army recruit threw at least three of his six pairs away. Faced with this blunt fact, the Army forthwith halved its issue. Said the Hoover Commission: "The military services...
...McMillan, appears the apochryphal but illuminating story of what happened when the first marine reported for duty in 1775. "What, the hell is a marine?" barked the bewildered officer of the deck. "You go aft and sit down till I find out." A few minutes later the second marine-recruit reported aboard and was also sent aft. From the lofty eminence of his seniority, the first man scornfully contemplated the newcomer and snarled: "Listen, boy, you shoulda been in the old Corps...
...Compton cops had been watching the whole performance. They charged in, yelling. Tommy and the three girls got into the car and drove off as the cops began shooting. But the policemen caught Larry Collins, the 14-year-old recruit. He talked. A little later the police converged on Peggy Byrns's house, found the rest of the gang. All five were charged with robbery, the original trio with murder. None showed any remorse...
...committee's prize exhibit was the Navy. After World War I, the Navy had banned all Negroes, later consented to recruit them only as mess-men. But under the pressure of war manpower shortages, the Navy began cautiously utilizing them in general service ashore, then putting them on ships. Now, the committee reported with satisfaction, nearly half the Navy's Negroes are in general service. There are Negroes in every job classification, both ashore and afloat. The committee found five Negroes among the trainees at the difficult electronics technicians' school...