Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting tonight at eight o'clock in the Lowell House common room, American Youth for Democracy members from six universities in the vicinity of Boston, Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, M.I.T., Simmons, and Tufts, will hear three speakers discuss the future of mankind as applied to their particular fields...
Merchant Thomas' salesmanship is not negative. He has a businesslike plan for bringing youth back to California's tired GOParty, and the plan is catching on. His enthusiastic associates believe that he has found the secret for stirring Republicans into offensive action elsewhere...
...speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...Rightly speaking," Gandhi answered, "the true purpose of marriage should be and is intimate friendship and companionship between man and woman. ... I may say that my wife and I tasted the real bliss of married life when we renounced sexual contact and that in the heyday of youth. It was then that our companionship blossomed and both of us were enabled to render real service to India and to humanity in general...
...Right Down. In the depression F.D.R. picked Mrs. Bethune to boss the Negro division of the National Youth Administration, the highest Government job a Negress has held. He relied on her also for extracurricular advice about Negro problems. ("He'd say: 'Come right in, Mrs. Bethune, sit right down. Now tell me about your people.' ") Occasionally she tried to boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin Roosevelt...