Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poincaré cabinet. Meeting outside to Chamber, both the Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs voted to ratify the debt agreement provided that a reservation was inserted making France's payments to the U. S. conditional on Germany's payments to France under the Young plan. Patiently Premier Poincaré reiterated that this would never be accepted by the U. S., which has immovably insisted that Europe's debts to the U. S. and Germany's reparations to Europe must be kept separate. He wanted the reservation, if made...
...young people's wing of the Protestant churches is the interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People's Union. Young Lutherans have their own Luther League, their Walther League. Similarly the Methodists formed their own Epworth League a few years after the founding (1881) of Christian Endeavor...
Last week in Kansas City, Mo., the Endeavorers conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
When he played football at Dallas College in Oregon, young Dan Poling did not care for liquor. He cared for it still less in 1912 when he ran for the Governorship of Ohio on a Prohibition ticket. Had he been elected he could not have taken office because he was too young (28). But he, a young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship...
...film companies must be ranked Radio Corp., and to the list of cinema tycoons must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President and General Manager. Inasmuch as Radio Corp. has in the past conducted many a merger, and since, like all young industries, Talking Cinema is much in the merger state, many have been the rumors that Radio Corp. will soon absorb one or another of its competitors. All such rumors Mr. Sarnoff, just back from Europe, last week denied. He was particularly emphatic in denying published reports that he had made...