Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas youth named Willard James Turntine was Spy Thompson's roommate. One day Thompson fondly confided his whole story to the boy. Patriotic Willard Turntine thereupon unburdened himself to Navy Intelligence officers, fled back to Texas. The officers trailed Thompson to many a meeting with Miyazaki, arrested him four months ago on a charge of masquerading in Navy uniform. Meantime Toshio Miyazaki had left the country...
...promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. . . . The worker has been returned. . . . The American businessman has been returned. . . . Our youth has been returned...
...Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone not wholly beguiled by these promises, it was also proposed that Congress should guarantee a living wage to every laborer, profitable production to every farmer, prosperity to every small businessman, a job to every youth...
...flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang...
...Buckland, himself an artist, withdrew his picture from the show, stated that his Executive Committee was no jury, but "a department store is a public institution and . . . cannot take part in political controversies; it cannot open to the young and adolescent of the city anything which, in their youth and inexperience, they might woefully misinterpret...