Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newbold Morris of Manhattan (president of the New York City Council) reported that a committee of which he is treasurer had $250,000 to pay for transporting the 20,000 children if admitted, and 1,400 unsolicited offers of adoption. Herbert Hoover chimed in. Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago sent word: "These children have done no wrong...
...when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
Alfred Mahan died December 1, 1914, 18 months before the British and German fleets met at Jutland. Among his obituaries was a tribute that would have delighted Mahan: "The super-dreadnoughts are his children, the roar of the 16-inch guns are but the echoes of his voice...
...adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep guffaws are more frightening than ever to adults, although children still respond to them...
...ways of life, the old political and social organizations of Europe were shattered; 9,000,000 men had been killed in battle or had died of their wounds; 22,000,000 had been wounded; an unknown number of civilians died as a result of the War. "Not until our children's time can the former joy of life come into the world," Bliss remarked. "And it can come then only if our culminating work makes it impossible for them ever to see another such...