Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had heard, Mrs. Ericksen was not only unfair to lamb chops, she was unfair to youth. Mrs. Roosevelt had heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion...
...about 45 minutes, while 500 other guests listened, Mrs. Roosevelt spoke on Youth, then said graciously to Mr. Sullivan: "Don't you want to say something?" Mr. Sullivan had come all the way from Washington with just that in mind. Said he: a number of things have lately been "regrettable": that Mrs. Roosevelt should have attended Dies Committee meetings with A. Y. C. members who were to be questioned; that members of the A. Y. C. should have booed her husband when he addressed them last winter on the White House lawn. Rejoined Mrs. Roosevelt: "Many things are regrettable...
Last week, probably to Mr. Sullivan's surprise, Mrs. Roosevelt herself mildly rebuked the A. Y. C. (which had gone on record against conscription). Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in "My Day": "The American Youth Congress . . . [seems] to me to be discussing the world of a year ago, not the world as it is today...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
...Since education is essential to the maintenance of democracy, the N. E. A. insists that the defense needs of the country can and must be met without injuring youth by interrupting normal and necessary educational services. The ultimate line of national defense is to be found in the loyalty, intelligence, health, technical skill, self-discipline and character of the citizens, and not in the regimentation of youth characteristic of totalitarian systems...