Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late the R. F. C. has suffered due to lack of aggressive leadership and clear-cut purpose within the Board. Its importance as a relief agency has dwindled. Its public works program is still meshed in red tape. Neglected by the White House, it has become an administrative orphan in Washington. Congress continues to sniff suspiciously at its past. Last week the Senate sent the House a bill prohibiting the R. F. C. from lending money to corporations which paid any of their executives more than $17,500 per year, thus barring as borrowers practically all railroads, big banks...
Early one evening last week a heavy rainstorm drenched New Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond...
...snuffer on a brilliant issue comes "The Children's Hour of Crime," by Arthur Mann. In the article he expounds at length on the deletrious influence of such programs as "Little Orphan Annie," and "Skippy," on his children. He describes his horror at hearing his six-year-old son command him to "Stick 'em up!" and indulges generally in the expression of those paranoiac which, appearently, haunt parents when their children decided to become sheriffs or outlaws. While the conclusions of the article are interesting only in their absurdity, they move in a just cause; if the programs in question...
...marked "Excellent" by the mothers: Roses and Drums, Current Events, Today's News, Great Moments in History, MARCH OF TIME. Only in Comedian Eddie Cantor did the two viewpoints meet. Rated "Good" by the mothers, he was the children's first choice. Next in popularity came Little Orphan Annie, who advertises Ovaltine and provides beetleware Orphan Annie Mugs to those who send in seals from Ovaltine cans. The Scarsdale mothers called her "Very Poor" because of her "bad emotional effect and unnatural voice." Some other ratings by the mothers...
Children's program Skippy & Little Orphan Annie...