Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
Henry Agard Wallace, Vice President of the U.S., last week spoke at the commencement ceremony of Connecticut College for Women.* Said he: "When the education of youth goes wrong, sooner or later all goes wrong. . . . I believe that in the prevention of World War No. 3 - in keeping faith with the boys who have given their lives - much will depend on just how we handle the German youth immediately following this war. . . . We must not repeat the mistakes made by the Allies after World War I. This time we must see that the defeat of Germany is complete...
...German postwar youth of World War II need not be forced to embrace either Communism, a new type of totalitarianism, or even the particular type of democracy which we have in the United States. We shall not need to send school teachers from the United States into the German schools, but we can make sure that the liberal element in Germany has an opportunity to replace the Nazi school books and the Nazi methods of teaching. I am a great believer in the Danish folk high school and the Scandinavian systems of cooperation. I believe they are well adapted...
Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not something that seriously-minded progressive democrats paid any attention...