Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having combed New Deal agencies for someone to take 'Quoddy off its hands, the War Department lighted last week on gaunt Director Aubrey Williams of the National Youth Administration. With some $71,000,000 to spend this year on the welfare of U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25, Director Williams was glad to accept 'Quoddy as a present. He will use the buildings for schoolrooms and workshops on an NYA project, build furniture and equipment for other NYA units throughout the U. S. If & when the 'Quoddy Dam passes muster with Congress...
...bitter rivalry between the U. S. and Japan, where swimming is now No. 2 sport to baseball, no one, naturally, gave a thought to Hungary. Hungary was represented in the 100-metre final by a skinny looking youth named Ferenc Csik...
Left. By the late Steelmaster John Long Severance, Cleveland's great patron of arts & music; to the Cleveland Art Museum: whatever its officers choose from his $2,140,252 art collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a Youth, Sir Thomas Lawrence's Daughters of Colonel Thomas Cartaret Hardy, Van Dyck's "Sir Thomas Hanmer; in Cleveland...
...speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never smoked, never drank, never swore-and does not to this day. He worked nights, sent money to his mother, put up with a miserable French boarding house in Manhattan to learn another language. Shortly before the company he worked for failed, he went west to Oklahoma City...
...Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against Hitler...