Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard is Isaac's oldest son. Big, barrel-chested, clean-living, popular, he was an amateur boxer in his youth, owns Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, and is called "Uncle Bernie" by the children of his friend Gene Tunney. He achieved his Gimbel hegemony partly through the backing of Julius Rosenwald, then financially interested. Close friend of Horace Saks, Bernard promoted the Saks-Gimbel merger in 1923. Bernard and Horace worked out the deal while riding on a coffin in a baggage car, the smoking car being too crowded...
Dorothy Thompson succeeded Lieut. Commander James Joseph Tunney as head of United Youth for Defense...
Full of the eager anticipation which all playgoers (except dramatic critics) share, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt taxied up to New York's Mansfield Theater. With her were her secretary, Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson and a onetime youth leader, pinko Joe Lash. The play they had come to see: In Time to Come. As Mrs. Roosevelt stepped out of her cab, to her horror she came face to face with a picket line...
...Floyd W. Reeves, of Washington, D. C., Director of the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, has been appointed Inglis Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, for the current year, the University announced today. He will deliver the annual Inglis Lecture on some problem in the field of secondary education, in the Fogg Museum, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock...
...written extensively on various aspects of education, and is a recognized authority on the problems of children and youth...