Often recruiters took in many as stewards who were equipped by education and training for better jobs, and when these men were immediately put into uniforms and trained on the job at local naval stations the result was often dismaying.
In its defense the corps pointed to its exceedingly small enlistment quotas during those years and its high enlistment standards, which together allowed recruiters to accept only a few men.
The staff had overlooked the ineffectiveness of the Army's testing measures and the zeal of its recruiters who, pressed to fill their quotas, accepted enlistees without concern for the new standards.
Some Navy recruiters found other ways to fill steward quotas.
Recruiters had similar problems in the enlistment of Negroes (p.
The success of the transfer program and the fact that first enlistments had finally begun to balance discharges led the recruiters to predict in March 1948 that their steward quota would soon be filled.
In truth, the black reservists were rejecting the blandishments of recruiters in overwhelming numbers.
Looking for 250 stewards, the recruiters could find but one acceptable applicant in the first weeks of the program.
To protect Negroes from overzealous recruiters for the branch, the bureau had announced in October 1945 that any Negro in the general service desiring transfer to the Steward's Branch had to make his request in writing.
The Urban League and others reported cases in which black volunteers were rejected by recruiters for any assignment but steward duty.
From Tonga to the Gilberts and on to the far Louisiades his recruiters combed the islands for labour.
Throughout the year traders and recruiters arrive from far, dry cruises, and planters from equally distant and dry shores, bringing with them magnificent thirsts.
The recruiters still use covering boats and carry the old barbed wire above their rails.
What even a seasoned reporter might not find out though, was that all 12 of Ahmed's elite recruiters had to pass a supreme test often required by international political terrorist organiza- tions.
If these tricks fail, the recruiters simply kidnap men and women while bathing.
Thus recruiting directly favours the general anarchy and immorality, and indirectly as well, since the recruiters do their best to create as much trouble as possible in the villages, knowing it will be to their advantage.
We spent a few lazy days on board the little cutter; the natives would not come down from their villages, in spite of frequent explosions of dynamite cartridges, the usual signal of recruiters to announce their arrival to the natives.
Their methods were as various as they were cruel, murder was a daily occurrence, and, of course, the recruiters were hated by the natives, who attacked and killed them whenever they got a chance.
Formerly there were professional recruiters who went slave-hunting as they would have followed any other occupation, and sold the natives to the planters at a fair profit.
We met with Saxon and Prussian recruiters at various places; all of whom, on account of my youth and stature, were eager to inveigle me.
The latest Recruiters may have been politicians of a more Presbyterian type than the earlier ones; and of these earlier Recruiters some who had come in as Independents may have veered round.
Among these he distinguishes the Recruiters from the original members by printing the names of the Recruiters in italics.
Recruiters had been elected, and were intermingled in the roll of the House with the surviving original members.
By that time some of the military men among the Recruiters were able to be present.
It was still more significant that among these New Model officers elected among the first Recruiters there was a knot of men who were already recognised as in a special sense Cromwellians.
Among the individual Recruiters named I have tried not to include any whose election was later than Jan.
Several of these distinguished coƶperants with the New Model, as well as several of the chief officers of the New Model itself, had already been honoured by being elected as Recruiters for the House of Commons.
Although as many as 146 Recruiters had been elected before the end of the year, they appear to have taken their places but slowly.
I could wish to answer it by entering into everything that can be agreeable to you [conduct of my Recruiters or Commissariat people first of all].
The recruiters had finished their dance, and were coming along the street where Marczi was walking.
And the newly-made soldier drank with the recruiters to his new profession.
The recruiters reaped the best harvest in the market-place, where they led a riotous dance.
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