Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...
...nostrums were riches, U. S. Youth would have plenty of spending money. Almost everybody but the younger generation itself has tried to tell Youth how to cure what ails it. This week Youth had its say about its own problem, and the diagnosis was shocking...
...Youth Tell Their Story* is the voice of 13,528 Maryland youngsters (16 to 24) and the American Youth Commission. Director of the commission is broad-shouldered Homer Price Rainey, 42, who was a star halfback and pitcher at Austin College, Texas, became a college president at 31 (Franklin College, Franklin, Ind.) and headed Bucknell University for four years. In 1935 he and the commission set out to get to the bottom of the youth problem...
They sank a sample shaft in Maryland, where 35 trained interviewers bearded the beardless at home, on street corners, in drugstores, in dance halls. Their 13,528 storytellers were a representative cross section of the nation's 20,000,000 youth...
...page report throws brilliant light on many a dark corner of the youth problem. Youth's biggest worries are neatly summed up by one youngster thus: "The problem is how to get married on $15 a week." Some hard facts...