Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last...
...appointing Senator Vandenberg, Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan stressed the advantage of youth as a qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...
...second thrust of Il Duce was to issue a decree suppressing the Catholic Boy Scouts and all other youth organizations not directly Fascist...
Broadening his discourse, Pope Pius then arraigned the State for rearing the Italian children of today in schools and youth organizations which are becoming progressively less Christian and more purely Fascist...
...college student is accused of his moral laxness, but it is seldom that the professor is attacked as he was on Thursday at the revival meetings in Tremont Temple. Reverend William E. Biederwolf accused the colleges of having too may "pallid prophets who have arisen to call upon our youth in the name of intellectual independence prophets of guesses and suppositions and unproved hypotheses who are leading our youth into a mental jungle and a moral morass...