Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum $8 monthly to 166,000 high-school students, a maximum $15 monthly to 119,000 college students, which they earned by working under the direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA's 48 state administrators had concocted an assortment of work relief projects, so designed as not to crowd the adult Works Progress Administration. Maximum monthly wage...
...last week NYA had managed to arouse a full-sized revolt among its beneficiaries. In Cleveland fortnight ago the American Youth Congress, annual sounding board for liberal-minded youngsters, demanded more money, more say-so in spending it, loudly cheered a speaker who cried: "NYA has the possibilities of a political football. . . . We seek not doles but economic rights! We seek relief administered democratically rather than by Presidential fiat...
...more aware of the inadequacy of NYA than Aubrey Williams. A lanky, kindly Alabaman, Director Williams believes the plight of U. S. youth will not brighten without undefined "changes in the economic structure." In Manhattan last autumn he declared that NYA had "gotten off to a very bad start." that he did not know what to do about it (TIME, Oct. 28). Giving New York's NYA a second start last week at the rate of $4,000,000 a year. Director Williams gloomily observed...
...progress must not be considered as in any way representing a solution of youth's problems. . . . NYA is simply helping a comparative few of the most worthy and needy young people...
...collector whose wealth of Old Masters' drawings thus sifted down last week through dealers to lesser collectors was born in 1859 in Washington, D. C. Migrating to England as a youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase...