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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girls. . . . More and more girls, for the joy they get out of the organization, because in scouting they may help themselves instead of having things thrust upon them. It is what they put into the organization that makes them happy. That is true of everything in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Three Things Wanted | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Frank Admissions Help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERTS DISCUSS THE SHEARER CASE | 10/3/1929 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House is able to use almost any person in Harvard College to help carry out its numerous duties. The committee sends members to social centers in the poorer sections of Boston and Cambridge, where these men do both paid and volunteer work in the homes in which the boys congregate. These youngsters are interested in forming clubs, getting organized, or, so it seems, doing anything at all; and if they are not kept busy, they are very liable to get into trouble on the streets. In social service homes, they can compete in games such as basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. SOCIAL SERVICE WORK IS DESCRIBED | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

...some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what the rivers of California and other States have done for American waste land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hungry Desert | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Negro communicants] to be publicly and insultingly expelled for no other reason than their color, is not only contrary to the teachings and precepts of the founder of Christianity but is a gross violation of ordinary justice and common decency and courtesy. ... If it has your sanction, well, God help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jim Crow Rector | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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