Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heterogeneous a section of American youth as Harvard's student body, one of the few things that all men hold in common is a fervent desire for peace. The man who deplores the bombing of Spanish Loyalists and does not equally deplore the bombing of Spanish Insurgents is not a pacifist, but a politician. There are comparatively few of these politicians at Harvard; they will be found this morning furiously distributing literature. Those who are truly representative of Harvard will go sincerely and soberly to Sanders Theatre, whether Quaker or R.O.T.C. officer, to see what hope remains of preserving peace...
Round No. 1 was straight Relief. The President asked for an additional appropriation of $1,250,000,000 for WPA for the first seven months of the next fiscal year starting next July. He also asked for an extra $300,000,000 for CCC, National Youth Administration and the Farm Security Administration. The total of $1,550,000,000 would enable the Government to maintain relief expenditures after July 1 at approximately the current rate-$200,000,000 per month...
Twenty years ago Carleton Beals landed in Mexico City. He had "youth, a good physique, two university degrees," but no money, and his clothes were in rags. Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
...action with one hundred and ninety participants, The Yale Harvard-Princeton Conference on Public Affairs began its regular program at New Haven today. In the afternoon the Conference started its actual work dividing into five tables for discussion on current topics of vital political and economic interest to the youth of today...
Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of the Law School, addressed the 32nd annual Acacia Club dinner here Saturday night, comparing present-day educational ideas with those of his own youth...