Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
...Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first speech to the 1,143 people who make up the main governmental body of the Soviet Union...
...native of Erie, Pa., Harry Burleigh left his job as janitor when he won a four-year scholarship to Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music. Head of the Conservatory was Anton Dvorak. After supper, Dvorak would coax another Negro song out of young Burleigh's teeming repertory. Shortly afterwards appeared Dvorak's New World symphony, the first to use Negro spirituals...
Twentieth Century-Fox's ebullient Darryl Zanuck characteristically promised "at least five" $2,000,000 pictures: The Rains Came, with Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent; Stanley and Livingstone; Little Old New York with Alice Faye; Brigham Young; Drums Along the Mohawk. Shirley Temple will do Lady Jane in Technicolor...
Since 1935 a group of men and women in Washington has solemnly pondered the U. S. Youth Problem. This group (16 eminent persons headed by Owen D. Young) is the American Council on Education's American Youth Commission. It has spent its four years mainly in gathering facts and issuing reports such as its famed Youth Tell Their Story (TIME, June 6) on Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between...