Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Cárdenas once summed up his education program to a friendly Communist admirer from Manhattan thus : "The child must learn the secrets of Labor. . . . The child must be taught a sense of the collective. Reading and writing are sterile unless they are used socially. ... In most instances, the child's parents are both illiterate and individualistic. Our problem is to teach the child what he does not learn at home...
...Congress is a lusty two-year-old offspring of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies. Its pur poses: to exchange youths' ideas, educate them for international cooperation, rally them to united action for preventing war. To carry out this ambitious program the first World Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their...
...earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...
...Worried about cotton and wheat surpluses, announced next year's crop-control program (see below...
...seeking a partial solution in a subsidy scheme under which he hopes to export 100,000,000 bu., about one-fourth the present U. S. surplus. To dump only 26,000,000 bu. abroad in 1934, the U. S. spent $6,500,000. However ingeniously conceived, a similar program now would not only add a neat expense item to AAA's bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would have to compete in the world market against wheat subsidized this year...