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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strenuously object to the head "World War" which TIME is using. Do you imply that you anticipate the breakdown of the present ideal of the great majority of the American people, namely, to keep our country out of this...
Most of us know nothing of history except what goes on during our own lifetime and the Versailles Treaty happens to be the only one we know and hear about. So it does not occur to us that if we blame the present war on the Versailles Treaty we must be logical and go farther back: for that treaty we must blame the Frankfurt Treaty of 1871 which must be blamed on some previous treaty which should be blamed on some other treaty which ought to be blamed on some other treaty which certainly must be blamed on some other...
Clearly discernible amid the traditional welter of words of advice and humorous anecdotes were two factors not present in recent years: the President's tendency to limit his remarks to introducing the other speakers, and the preoccupation of almost all the speakers with the war in Europe...
...generation prepared itself to die if it had to. Many of us did," he went on, urging the present generation to look ahead to the monumental task of reconstructing a war-shattered world...
While the students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both. For a room, the students mind furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...