Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Gorham Davis, Smith College English professor and first witness at the open hearings, patiently repeated a personal history. He had joined the Communist Party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard; two years later, disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he quit. Party members, he said, had tried to recruit faculty members, not to influence students. Now, in his opinion, "the influence of Communists is very slight" on the teaching profession. With some reluctance, the slim, spectacled teacher identified in the public hearing former fellow Communists about whom he had already testified in private...
Germans first got stirred up over the recruiters last November, when German border guards were roughly handled by French gendarmes as they tried to stop a bus load of legion recruits crossing from Germany into France (others are ferried across the Rhine by night, or flown over by air ferry). Last week the West German Bundestag voted to jail anyone "recruiting or attempting to recruit" Germans for service in a foreign army outside Germany. The vote was unanimous, a rare event in the Bundestag. The only hitch is that the law will apply only to Germans, for the French under...
...Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program of practical aid, on a "village level," in areas that suffer from material want...
...suggestion that Harvard recruit better basketball material, the recent "fixing" scandals manifest the inherent evils in this system. Besides, the records compiled by Harvard freshmen basketball teams during the past four or five years would not indicate that a dearth of talent is the basis for our present difficulties...
SOUTH AFRICA New Recruit A curly-haired British South African, awkward on his crutches after an automobile accident that shattered his right leg, hopped out of a green car one day last week at the entrance to Germiston Negro location, a sprawl of tin huts 15 miles east of Johannesburg. He was the first white recruit-and quite a catch-for the Passive Resistance campaign, organized by blacks, half-whites and browns against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's racial segregation laws...