Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover-Taft Republican Strauss, sometime History Professor McGee, 44, turned out to be Anderson's most eager recruit to the anti-Strauss camp...
Even if he failed as a recruiter, Terry Dene could take comfort that somebody still wanted to recruit him. At St. George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...
...Algerian communities began new municipal elections, the third balloting since De Gaulle came to power. Algeria's Moslem population was showing only sullen indifference to French efforts to whip up campaign excitement. And in a rural constabulary, a French army officer admitted that he was not trying to recruit Moslem candidates, because "a few days later those men would be dead. I will not sign their death warrant...
Until Social Relations 10 was introduced in 1957, the Department was "at a horrible disadvantage" in the race to recruit Freshmen, Pettigrew said. Most students, when they enter college, "have not the slightest idea what sociology is, although they are quite familiar with most other subjects...
...sense, Wall Street is now paying for the success of its campaign to recruit small stockholders. Once a stockholder has an account, the high-priced blue chips that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top growth companies such as Polaroid and Texas Instruments, which have increased several hundred percent in a few years, were once considered risky. Says Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "We have no objection to people buying into small and little-known companies-provided they know what they are doing...