Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prospective conscripts can volunteer for one year if they dislike being drafted (the Army prefers three-year terms for its volunteers, will continue to recruit on that basis). By law, both conscripts and one-year volunteers must be accepted "regardless of race or color." The Army nevertheless can (and probably will) use its powers of selection to keep down the proportion of Negroes to whites (present ratio...
Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies...
Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies...
Army men were jubilant over the physical and mental condition of the new soldiers. Cataloguing its new recruits (after rejecting 30%), the Army found that 62% had attended high school or college, the rest had grammar-school educations. The composite 1940 recruit is a blue-eyed, brown-haired 21-year-old, rural, native-born citizen with a high-school education, 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighing...
...order last week transformed the 369th Infantry, New York National Guard, into a Coast Artillery anti-aircraft outfit. From commanding officer to rawest recruit, it is an all-Negro regiment, one of two in the Guard (the other: Chicago's 8th Illinois...