Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...
...late as 1921, Hon. Charles E. Hughes, also onetime president of the A.B.A., appeared in the U. S. Supreme Court in behalf of a client convicted in the Federal courts of Michigan. Hon. Elihu Root, also a former president of the A.B.A. in his youth, did not hesitate to appear in the defense of criminal cases, when he felt it necessary...
...days later, after addressing a meeting of Christian Socialists, Chancellor Dollfuss on his way to his offices in Parliament Building was accosted by a youth. The boy handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant...
...budget in Japanese history. Since Japan quit the gold standard (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) her yen has fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage of $50, voiced his sympathy for President Roosevelt, his hope that the U. S. may also be able to avoid printing press inflation, no matter how low the dollar sinks on international exchange...
...century and a quarter, business has been the one great career for the ambitious American youth. Like the Church in the Middle Ages, like politics in the Revolutionary period of our own history, it offered the greatest opportunities for the achievement of power and fortune. All this is ended now with startling suddenness. Business will bulk less and less large in our national life. The ambitions college graduate will look elsewhere for his life work...