Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poor Mr. Aubrey Williams, Executive Director of the National Youth Administration, wants to know what to do with the 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 unemployed youths whose troubles have been shifted on his shoulders. One half of the $50,000,000 allotted to him will go to helping 300,000 destitute students keep on with their college and high-school work, which leaves a paltry $25,000,000 for the rest...
Perhaps, though, Mr. Williams has missed the point. No sane person ever thought that $50,000,000 could solve the problems of five to six million unemployed youths. Ten dollars a head, on the other hand, is high enough a price to pay for the huge Youth vote in 1936. But for this, it seems, a better tool than sincere Mr. Williams would have been a Farley, a Curley, or a Tague...
...Voting Youth up to twenty-five years old will be over fifteen million strong in 1936. Let us hope they will see their own central and essential interest in Recovery through all the fogs of catchwords and the veils of cash...
Herbert Marshall hasn't done anything as refreshing as "Accent on Youth" since the halcyon days of "Trouble in Paradise" with Miriam Hopkins. This latest vehicle is about a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with a girl of twenty-six, but doubts his ability to hold her against the onslaught of youth. And the onslaught is not long in arriving-in the form of a Princeton...
...With "Youth Faces the World" as his subject, Ludwig Lowisohn, one of America's foremost novelists, addresses the Avnkah Society tonight at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...