Word: recruiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto Maple Leafs whom they nosed out for last season's Stanley Cup (league championship) are again the favorites this year. Besides retaining their crack regulars-Ching Johnson, Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, who have been with the team since 1926-the Rangers have acquired two notable recruits. One is a defense man named Jean Pusie who played with Vancouver and was last year's high scorer in the Western Canada League. Pusie is 23, has a cauliflower ear from professional wrestling, never plays without his "lucky cap." The other recruit is Lome Carr, a right-winger from...
Sleepless for 36 hours at a stretch, indefatigable Milo Reno popped up within six days at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago and Kankakee to recruit strikers and sympathy. He requested the NRA's approval of his banner: a green eagle clutching a pitchfork with FHA above and "We Are A Part" below. After listening to the President's radio talk to the country, promising higher commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 30) Milo Reno declared...
...labor unions, released after eight years' suppression, were agitating among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...
...University's football and baseball teams in 1923, farmed him out a year to Hartford. In the spring of 1925, Yankee Everett Scott was just finishing his world's record of 1,307 consecutive games played in major league baseball, while the slow-witted, ham-fisted young recruit sat on the Yankee bench. On June 1, 26 days after Scott had finished his run, Manager Miller Huggins sent the recruit into a game to pinch-hit against Washington. He failed. Next day, for no good reason, Huggins put the big boy at first base. That...
...clean their own rooms, make their beds, work once a week on the school grounds. If enrollment goes to 150, tuition will be cut to $1,075. If it goes to 200, the price will be $950. Thus, if each Tome boy or his parents will enlist one recruit, as Headmaster Shortlidse urged them to do. the school will be filled and everyone's pockets will be less empty...