Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflection of the rich man's point of view. Of course Harvard is a rich man's college. The editorial, for instance, gave the President no credit for establishing the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to save impoverished home owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest for an education...
...grandparents had emigrated to the U. S. from Holland for conscience's sake, settled in West Virginia to bring up their progeny in the fear of the Lord.Carie grew up to be pretty and proper, but she had a profound fire in her that knew the local youth for the chaff they were. At an impressionable age she met and married a zealous young preacher, for the bad reason that they both felt called to be missionaries. Hand in hand they went through the wood-to China. Here Carie began to wake up, when she saw what Christianity meant...
...president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental sadism, the conclusion was what...
...youth it was something else again." They were confronted with a world combined against them; there were no jobs; "they read into National Socialism their own ideals...
...stir the most tremendous and universal indignation by "exposing" the fact. But now the politician has a perfect weapon; he deals with larger sums of money, and it not only does not break the law, it is the law. Any accusation that a President has been buying votes of Youth, Age, and Farmers, pumped huge sums into Kentucky and Maine just before elections, meets only with the most tremendous applause at the man's Progressiveness, Humanitarianism, Fearless and Unselfish Devotion to the Best Interests of the People, Political Ingenuity...