Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the Revolution of 1917, Dr. Strong continued, and she only mirrored what she was hearing in Moscow in 1925: "When the hour for action arrived, many of the Old Bolsheviks who had been Lenin's adherents for years wished to postpone the decisive blow. Trotsky, the new recruit, stepped into the breach and made the Revolution with Lenin. . . . Trotsky built an army out of worse than nothing; out of demoralized deserters who had determined never to fight again. . . . Trotsky is still today [1925] after endless attacks, the most popular and significant figure in the land...
...meantime Clavers has had a recruit -towering Alastair Maclan, a proud, penurious Highlander plagued with second sight. And when Alastair went into one of his trances he saw rocks ahead. In his waking moments he ably seconded Clavers in his police duties, wooed Margaret, Jean's protegee. Margaret liked Alastair but could not do better than that: seeing her father murdered had been a shock that left her pathologically virginal. Clavers married his Jean but Alastair pined in vain for Margaret...
...route is Ed McGrady's job. For the ship strike, his present chore, would be a trifle compared to a major tie-up of Motors or Steel. In the struggle between the old and new leaders of Labor, the ultimate measures of success will be which can recruit the greatest number of supporters. Organizing new unions nearly always breeds serious strikes. Furthermore strikes are themselves the best means of recruiting union members. Ultimately, if the struggle goes on, jurisdictional strikes, apt to be the most obstinately incurable of all, must occur between industrial and craft unions. Then...
...Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than...
...acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four more wives, later a fifth. They were not love-matches. A son of Wife...