Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insure understanding of current college situations arising from the war program, James Ward, of Peano, Illinois, a collegian fresh from the campus, has been appointed Co-ordinator of college activities for the Division of Youth Activities of the Office of Civilian Defense, Gilbert Harrison and Jane Seaver, Co-Directors, announced today through the Regional Information Office, OEM, 17 Court Street, Boston. Mr. Ward, now working out of the Washington Headquarters of OCD, is former editor of "Northwestern Daily" at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois...
Emphasizing the college students' leadership-responsibility in Civilian Defense, Ward and John Langdon, youth representative in Region VI, addressed a meeting of student and faculty representatives of 13 Chicago area colleges. It was the concensus of the delegates that students should continue their college courses until called for government service. Major Raymond J. Kelly, Regional Director of the OCD in the sixth region, said, "The war is furnishing a tremendously increased demand for trained people. Often, it is better for students to continue what they are doing instead of going into the service...
...Roosevelt had ambitious plans for her bouncing friend Joseph P. Lash. She thought that Joe, a gradually aging youth leader, should get a commission and make his wartime career in the Office of Naval Intelligence...
...doubt, had plenty of intelligence. His latest job was General Secretary of the International Student Service, which is also under Mrs. Roosevelt's widespreading wings. But the Navy did not cotton to Joe. It looked into his past, found that in 1937, as leader of a Communist-cuddled youth movement which staged a students' anti-war demonstration, Joe had written passionately: "The strike against war is a dress rehearsal of what we intend to do in a war crisis...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...