Word: sexe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This November, mail carriers will distribute to all the 31,000,000 homes in the U. S. cards containing 14 questions to be answered by anyone partly or wholly unemployed. In addition to name, age, sex, race, the answers to the questions should indicate when the recipient worked last, what at, how much work he did in the previous week and year, whom he supports, whether anyone else in his family is unemployed. Franklin Roosevelt is to give a "fireside" broadcast urging all unemployed to fill out cards. The Post Office Department - whose James Aloysius Farley may by that time...
Three summers ago a group of eleven serious thinkers-among them, Robert S. Lynd (Middletown) and Margaret Mead (Sex & Temperament)-dismayed by the insecurity, the bewilderment, the crimes of the younger generation, gathered at Hanover, N. H., under the sponsorship of the General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
...problems which the "Hanover group" believed to be most perplexing to young folk was Sex. This generation of parents, the conferees believed, is too busy or too puzzled to give adequate answers to its children's sex questions. U. S. high schools, the Commission on Human Relations later found, which receive Youth at the age when the sex problem is most insistent, have made slight progress in the past 17 years toward providing this information. In a survey by the U. S. Public Health Service and American Social Hygiene Association in 1920, only 8% of the nation...
...commission's book which was provided to clear up U. S. juveniles' ignorance about sex problems is Dr. Alice Virginia Keliher's Life & Growth. It begins with a discussion of inferiority complexes, goes on to dispel adolescents' fears of abnormality, and culminates with two chapters called "From Child to Man" and "Growing Pains," which treat the physiology of procreation with great candor. It was these that sent Philadelphia public school officials running for cover last week...
...could go due south, the press seized on the last paragraph as "an attack on Hitler," or "a veiled thrust at Nazi Germany," and having had its little splurge abruptly dropped Dr. Bruening in favor of a four alarm fire in East Somerville and the current war on sex crimes...