Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...legs on the high court's august desk or chain-smoke cigarets during hearings, he may often wish he could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...
Crop damage, mainly the uprooting of dry young wheat in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, was estimated...
...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...
Something of a hero, something of a joke in the country around Powell, Wyo. was huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...