Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little John has not been popular in Greece. His Government is neither a constitutional monarchy nor a corporative State, but it has those fascist elements of regimentation, government by decree, secret police and a youth movement. There are no civil liberties, but cigarets are cheap and every man can afford a string of beads to twiddle in his idle fingers. Metaxas is Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Cults and National Education, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Air Minister. His chief hold on the King is a little secret between them: the King, who is always hard...
...pathetic 19-year-old youth, whose name is inscribed at the top of a dark page of German history, entered the Reich last week handcuffed to a Gestapo agent and guarded by another. He was Herschel Grynszpan, whose shot in Paris in 1938 set off the greatest Nazi pogrom. Released from the Paris Santé Prison when that capital fell, he reportedly joined the refugee stream, surrendered at Toulon, where he was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a French court "under German supervision." In Berlin he will face the notorious Volksgericht, which keeps two headsmen busy...
Earlier plans for the President's visit included a short ceremony in which Langdon P. Marvin '41, head of the Roosevelt for President College Clubs and godson of the President, was to have pinned a "Youth for Roosevelt" button on the President's lapel. This had to be cancelled for Tack of time. However, Marvin did report to the President on his activities in a fifteen minute conference at the train following the rally. Mr. Roosevelt expressed appreciation of the work he was doing...
...speakers had finished, their vocal supporter, who looked as though he ought to be a senator of the downeast type, rose to his feet and delivered a short but fervid address which started as a paean of praise for Wendell Willkie and ended as a denunciation of modern youth and Harvard in particular
...Cunningham comes of a generation which in its youth saw issues clearly. Things were right,--or things were wrong. With a self-assurance born of pioneer optimism, they made their decisions and acted on them. In 1917 they made one of their self-assured decisions. England was right. Germany was wrong. War was glorious, like San Juan Hill. So America went...