Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breezed into Washington and in less than a fortnight egged the Administration into the labor fight of its life is an authentic member of the Philadelphia Biddle family which settled in Pennsylvania not long after William Penn. Francis Biddle is the latest recruit to that small but enthusiastic band of Philadelphia socialites which has rallied to the New Deal. His co-workers in this exclusive group are William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia,* and George Howard Earle, governor-elect of Pennsylvania...
...crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...
Heeding finally the frantic requests of the League's Saar Commissioner Knox and his Chief of Police that a fair plebiscite in January will be absolutely impossible without additional police, the League decided to recruit its first private army. Ever since the League was founded the loudest argument of its opponents has been that it would cause the drafting of innocent young men to fight private wars for peace. Almost every League member fought shy of allowing its nationals to be called for service in the Saar...
...feeling that the injection of Italian-speaking troops into this Franco-German stew would only make matters more difficult. Il Duce had another idea. The South Tyrol (except for the Trentino), and the country back of Trieste, taken from Austria after the War, still speaks mostly German. He would recruit a special force among the mountaineers who could talk back to the Saarlander but had only an academic interest in their problem. The League accepted with alacrity...
...greatest that ever tred on a gridiron but now the 260-pound Edwards has a real running mate capable of playing brilliant football the entire 60-minutes of the game. The jovial Boswell of the campus is a terror in action and promises to be the outstanding line recruit of the 1934 professional season...