Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They included Raymond Guyot, deputy for the Paris suburb of Villejulf and former General Secretary of the Communist Youth Movement...
This year, through a National Youth Administration grant of $60,000, approximately 400 students are being assisted through jobs at the University...
...week as a pretext for halting school construction altogether. His excuse: building costs were high; labor and steel were scarce; it would be better to spend the $10,000,000 after the emergency to relieve unemployment. Informed of the mayor's action at a press conference last week, youth-minded Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed: "Horrible...
There are excellent chapters on the prehistory of the Communist Party, then posturing as the Workers Party; on "the Cult of Russia-Worship"; on the "Communist Milquetoast" (Earl Browder); on "Stalin's Children's Hour" (The American Youth Congress); on "the Typewriter Front" and "the Intellectual Red Terror." "Cocktails for Spanish Democracy" includes some of the plainest and clearest speaking yet heard on the befogged subject of the Red stake in Loyalist Spain. Less outspoken (for reasons of libel) is the chapter on "America's Own Popular Front Government," the Communist penetration of the New Deal...
Talleyrand. The man who ended the terror, says Ferrero, was Talleyrand. His life reflected the chaos of the time. An unwilling youth, he had been forced into the Church. He retaliated by practising such public debauchery that when his dying father begged Louis XVI to give Talleyrand a bishopric, his mother begged the King "not to disgrace the Church with such a bishop." One month after becoming bishop of Autun, Talleyrand left the Church, joined the Revolution, initiated a bill to strip the Church of all its property in France. Says Ferrero: "The rebellious prisoner had taken advantage...