Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Congress was disillusioned about the farmer. In early youth I learned a piano piece called The Happy Farmer. Where the composer picked up such a weird inspiration, I can't imagine. The farmer is hardworking, honest, pays his debts. But he is a congenital pessimist, finds conditions always bad, and blames everything on the Government-including rainfall...
...Harold Callender, a New York Times State Department reporter: "In the opinion of high American officials General de Gaulle is less interested in helping to win the war than in advancing his personal political fortunes. ... As to the reports that he has made a deep impression on the French youth in North Africa, the comment here is that the reason is that he personifies the Fascistic impulses that were working among many French youths before...
...first principles of hygiene, sanitation, balanced diet, baby care. . . . Homes are bare hovels, crops are blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts, nursing . . . church finance . . . the teaching of Christian giving, a new day will dawn...
This is Eric Hodgins, TIME'S Editorial Vice President, who was first Managing Editor, then Publisher of FORTUNE, before that was Managing Editor of the Youth's Companion, Associate Editor of Redbook. A graduate engineer, Hodgins is co-author of several widely-read scientific books. The New Yorker calls him "thin-haired, orbicular...
...Went NYA. The National Youth Administration asked for $47,800,000. It got $3 million with which to liquidate itself...