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Word: kahan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, many another commencement speaker, aware that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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