Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while major-league baseball players were polishing their golf clubs in preparation for the coming spring-training season, many a U. S. youth, with a yearlong accumulation of hard-earned nickels & dimes in his pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung up in the last five years. Baseball schools (geared to precede spring training) charge from $40 to $75 tuition for four-to six-week courses, make no guarantees to place graduates, serve as a showroom for talent as well as a classroom for instruction...
Arrangements are being made to handle a crowd of 60,000. The jump was built last winter under National Youth Administration auspices...
...American Utopia; he first saw the "light" sometime before the turn of the century. One of the objectives of the movement is to "combat and defeat all un-American movements" which O'Neil considers mainly as consisting of Communism and Fascism, but which he believes includes most youth organizations today...
...Youth Movement is going to support candidates for office who will be pledged to refrain from regulating business and industry, but who will also "relieve unemployment and guard the welfare of labor...
...real necessity for the movement, its Boston representative claims, is the fact that youth must be taught democratic principles which he believes the educational system does not teach...