Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William James once observed, "there were instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow. . . . Our gilded youth [would be] drafted off according to their choice [of work assignments] to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas...
...Happy Days reported that Major General George Van Horn Moseley (now retired) had advocated "expansion of the CCC to take in every 18-year-old youth in the country for a six-month course in work, education and military training." Happy Days mused: ". . . The teaching of boys to use their fists ... is recognized, even by our religious organizations, as a good and reasonable thing. But to teach a man military training...
...should you ask me to.'' Last week Colonel Harrington wanted it clearly understood that Harry Hopkins had not "helped out" in his selection of Relief's No. 2 man, to replace Mr. Hopkins' lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner, who since 1933 has had charge of all Federal relief in 13 Midwest States (WPA's Region...
Back from a year at Oxford, Barklie Henry worked for the Boston American, Atlantic Monthly, became managing editor of Youth's Companion. Suddenly in 1928 he dropped out of sight. Close friends knew he had a job with New York's Guaranty Trust Co., but the job was so small that Guaranty's telephone operators seldom recognized his name...
...politician, Mrs. Bethune was in her glory last week. To her second National Conference on Problems of the Negro & Negro Youth came 125 delegates to urge abolition of poll taxes, attack discrimination against Negroes in the Army & Navy, TVA, Federal Housing Administration. To address the convention, in the Department of Labor auditorium, came Mrs. Bethune's friend, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Speaking as an "individual," Mrs. Roosevelt urged passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill which Southern Senators filibustered to death last year...