Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westchester County . . . the first act of the Works Progress Administration, of which the National Youth Administration is a part, was to disband the county bureau and substitute their political agents who know nothing of the country, nothing about public works and nothing about administration. And who do you think has now been selected in addition to our numerous Federal missionaries to save the youth of Westchester at $3,000 a year? None other than Mr. Hopkins' sister, Mrs. Adah Hopkins Aime...
...well-loved sister of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Last week, explaining that Mrs. Meyer's speech had already caused Brother Harry some embarrassment in the form of crank letters and might cause him more as the political campaign grew hotter, Sister Adah resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept the position . . . I know they agree that remarkable...
...voice of Sir Thomas is often raised against "the Godless and shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence...
From the Alley to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went Nacio Herb Brown and his teammate, dandified Arthur Freed, who has been known to order 25 suits at a time. As a youth, Composer Brown sang in a Los Angeles church choir, worked week days as a tailor's apprentice. When success first came to him in Hollywood he bought a lavish estate at Malibu Beach, four big automobiles. Brown's big song hits have been Singing in the Rain, Wedding of the Painted Dolls, Pagan Love Song, Broadway Melody, All I Do Is Dream...
...Chaplin vehicles are not street cars. Chaplin is an anachronism; having learned the art of pantomime for the silents, he isn't going to give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick for preventing lag is remembered...