Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet inflated living costs and again in its tardy acceptance of the principle of the five-day week the University has come a long way from the almost feudal attitude it has indicated toward labor problems in the past. And the announced intention of the dining hall department to recruit a sufficient number of additional employees removes the possibility of the old employer racket of merely spreading workers thinner on the same jobs after a reduction in hours...
...Toledo (and possibly Cleveland) draft boards were piecing out their quotas with young Canadians who could not get jobs at home and had exaggerated notions about G.I. pay and benefits (which are no better, Canadian living costs considered, than the Canadian Army's). The fact that a recruit must have lived in the U.S. at least 30 days did not seem to bother the draft boards. Said one Canadian: the Toledo board to which he applied arranged everything, even a bogus address. "We were told what to say and what to fill out. They told us . . . not to return...
Currently throwing its efforts into the campaign of Martha Sharp for Congress against Joe Martin in the Massachusetts fourteenth district and also for Oliver Allen, the Liberal Union is trying to recruit men to canvass for the election of these candidates...
...expect to sign up the millionth recruit this fall...
Actually, WEEI officials had been asked to recruit a representative from the University who has no problems, particularly of the housing variety. Other student speakers had been selected to illustrate the predicaments of the less fortunate...