Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continuing their drive to recruit volunteers for war work of all kinds, the War Service Committee announced last night that they would extend their activities to the Freshmen today, with a questionnaire to be distributed to all Yardlings in the Union at lunchtime...
Following up the recently announced War Department plan to recruit men in colleges in order to meet the increasing needs of the Army Air Forces for air and ground crews, Elliott Perkins, Faculty Air Force adviser, stated yesterday that Lieutenant-Colonel John J. Keough '25 of Westover Field will explain the new program to undergraduates next Monday in Emerson D, at 7:30 o'clock. Enlistments will take place on the 8th and 9th of May, at which time the Army hopes to fill its quota...
...military circuit is hard work, but scoop-nosed Comedian Hope thrives on it. One week he took the Military Police apart (a sure-fire routine for soldiers); next week, when he arrived at Camp Haan, the M.P.s threw him in the guardhouse. At Camp Roberts a distraught recruit whose girl in the Midwest had just returned his engagement ring asked Hope to say a word to her in his broadcast. Hope explained that that was against the FCC rules; but after the show he looked up the jilted soldier and put in a telephone call for him. With half...
Some of the missionaries took a great interest in radio, but radio would be a cultural influence for the natives. A half-dozen bumptious young men of God arrived a few years ago, and tried to recruit the rest of the mission staff for Naziism. But what-if the stories were true- could be funnier than a potbellied native youngster, ramming out his hand in a ludicrous Heil? The few Australian colonials at Salamaua, Lae and Port Moresby found it very hard to worry about Finschhafen...
...drive to recruit a large number of new ambulance drivers, two Harvard graduates, both winners of the Croix de Guerre, will address a mass meeting of prospective volunteers in the Hasty Pudding Auditorium, Wednesday at 8 o'clock...