Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an alarmed adult considers Youth brash, bad-mannered, ignorant and Red. Some even think that Youth is organized like a labor union, that Youth is a Movement. Last week grown-ups who think these things were able to get themselves into quite a stew over the goings-on of the biggest and most conglomerate of youth organizations, the American Youth Congress. Hitchhiking, riding jalopies, trains, busses, 482 delegates, black & white, representing 299 local and national groups, assembled in College Camp, Wis. for A. Y. C.'s sixth annual convention...
...history had thrown up. In 1934 an elaborate system of training for leadership was inaugurated when the first of 32 schools, each to enroll 4,000 prospective little Fuhrers, was opened. Since 1937 all these schools have been named after Adolf Hitler, including one first named for the late youth-loving Ernst Roehm. There are also three Ordensburgen (Citadels of the Nazi Order) where, surrounded by Germanic mysticism and medieval trappings, the higher education proceeds. Finally there is the postgraduate Führerschule...
...with Communism without the knowledge of his family, and on graduating refused a job in his father's office. In March he set off for a "vacation in Mexico." Secretly, before leaving Manhattan, Sheldon Harte had visited Leon Trotsky's lawyer, Albert Goldman, who hired the youth to work in Mexico City as a secretary-bodyguard to the Great Exile. Last month Sheldon was kidnapped by a terrorist group who riddled the Trotsky home with bullets, tossed an incendiary bomb into the courtyard, killed nobody in the house (TIME, June 3). Next day Jesse S. Harte (until then...
Whatever its elders may say of it, nobody can deny that U. S. youth likes to play games and plays them in mass and well. Last week, before going home for their vacations, U. S. collegians and schoolboys met in Vermont, Connecticut and Pennsylvania to see who was the best at golf and tennis, whose names might headline sporting pages in the years to come...
Owen D. Young became temporary aide to Defense Advisory Commissioner Sidney Hillman. He will help train technicians through the National Youth Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps...