Word: youthfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Commission began to look less sour. Having collected many facts, it was ready to start doing something about them. First step was to appoint a new director† who has his own youth story. Floyd Wesley Reeves, born on a South Dakota ranch staked out by his father not far from Custer's last stand, spent his boyhood tending cattle instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went...
Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...
...American Youth Commission and Director Reeves believe that the Texas high-school youngsters who graduated last year with the slogan: "WPA, here we come," are not typical of U. S. Youth. They prefer to tell about the sandier college class which was told by its history professor that he planned to run for police commissioner of a university town but expected to be defeated by the city machine. The class went out and got him elected...
...EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH-Newton Edwards-American Council on Education, Washington...
...talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time for women, has never married...