Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday evening some of us listened to Miss Von Lieben, a student at the University of Vienna, describe sincerely and without flourishes just what amount of food students in Vienna had to live on, elsewhere had meant to them. But the Mary Margaret McBride background to this program, furnished by the other participants, was enough to cause some quick dial-twisting to another station...
Five dollars worth of food kept Miss Von Lieben going at her university for four weeks. Harvard's contribution to the University of Vienna last summer brought, as a testament of gratitude from students there, two board and room scholarships for Harvard students. Of the $25,000 to be raised in the present drive, $21,000 is divided among the Universities of Warsaw, Athens, Peking, and Vienna, schools where hunger and a forty percent tubercular rate compete for the lives of students. The remaining $4000 buys food for Harvard's own baby, a summer rest school at Salzburg, Austria, where...
Since the installation of the Bureau, however, the nature of Miss Taylor's labors have changed somewhat. Her headquarters have moved from Cambridge's pavements to her own home-like office, designed to make fearful youngsters feel comfortable...
...Miss Taylor's present assertion that she is not so much a "law-enforcing as a protective and preventive agent--a social worker in the police department," is the characteristic attitude of the entire bureau, whose function, according to Lieutenant Thomas J. Stokes, Bureau chief, "is to correct by adjustment...
...longer are youthful first offenders whisked away to a foreboding reformatory. When a Cambridge policeman turns in a complaint card, the Crime Prevention Bureau, not the municipal court takes over. A "pre-court" session is held, and Miss Taylor and her co-workers probe for the causes of the child's mistakes...