Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the cobalt-blue ceiling and fantastic chandeliers of the Department of Labor Auditorium, the bustle and fidget of over 2,000 young people settled to a whisper. The members of the American Youth Congress, assembled in Washington for a four-day citizenship institute, "a monster lobby for jobs, peace, civil liberties, education and health," came to order. A. Y. C.'s adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sat placidly in the second...
...there were a few drowsing deans in the audience when Aubrey Williams spoke here Thursday evening, the lapse was a pardonable one. For the ideas which the National Youth Administrator discussed so ably could hardly have seemed novel or radical to any one who has listened to President Conant's theories of education--or who is at all familiar with what Thomas Jefferson believed. Though they differ on the practical problem of how to pay for that education, Tom, Jim, and Aubrey are in surprising accord when it comes to the kind of schooling and the type of student they...
...American Youth Congress holds a yearly meeting in Washington. Young people from all over the country attend to exchange experiences and to bring pressure on the national government to carry out the AYC program. This program is decided at the national convention where representatives of youth organizations agree on a program to fit the needs of youth...
...recent Youth Institute in Washington was attended by over 5000 young people representing many youth organizations of every sort. It discussed and lobbied for jobs, peace, and civil liberties. Jobs, because youth needs an economic status in the community; peace, because young people want no involvements in war; and civil liberties, because only through free discussion can the first two objectives be obtained. It is this representative organization that the Crimson and the Dies Committee call "a minority speaking for a group which it claims to represent...
...subject is of particular interest in view of the National Youth Act proposed at the recent Youth Congress in Washington...