Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have organized the 'Palestine for Arabs' movement," the letter said. "Our intention is to recruit volunteers to join the 'Franklin D. Roosevelt Legion' to fight in Palestine and protect that land for its rightful owners, the Arabs...
...hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right now, I'm a recruit around the place-I guess I should say I'm a freshman...
Radcliffe aid was enlisted by the Harvard Committee for Wallace last night when it sent speakers to the six 'Cliffe dormitories, to lead discussions on the need for the third party, and recruit canvassers. Fifty Radcliffe students attended the 7 o'clock meetings...
...story of Esch, a short, red-faced, powerful bookkeeper who in a phlegmatic, almost indifferent way: 1) gets mixed up with the Social Democrats when his friend is jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions of socialism, loveless matings on rooming-house beds, artful schemes to marry pregnant...
...Hooperatings are taken only in the larger cities.So he asked John Lewellen, the Quiz Kids' program director, to work up a proper show. Lewellen, who was raised on a farm near Gaston, Ind., sent his parents out over the R.F.D.s of rural America to drum up interest and recruit performers...