Word: youths
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While her husband played foreign war (see above) and his chief spokesman wooed Business (see p. 49), Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, increasingly vocal these days on national issues* delivered an extemporaneous speech in Manhattan last week on security for youth and age. Excerpts...
...believe in the Social Security Act. I believe in old-age pensions. I think we have to deal that way with many things. I believe in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer, but simply as something which gives hope, which gives perhaps a suggestion which might be followed by communities; never because the Federal Government could answer the whole problem of the unemployment of youth by a Youth Administration or WPA. It can't be done. These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. That is what we have done...
...There is no use kidding ourselves. We have got to face this problem and we have got to face it together. ... It is not just Youth. To be sure it matters more to Youth. Youth wants to begin living, it is vital for them. But we have all got to face it and face it together. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies, as many civilizations have died in the past. It is nothing new for a civilization to come to the end. We have seen it happen over and over again...
Despite his hearty, rugged, American patriotism, the Ambassador has long been more at home in Europe than America. As a youth he studied in Munich. He was in Russia when the World War started. As a correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger he covered the early part of the War from Austria-Hungary and Germany. When the U. S. declared war, his knowledge of languages and European affairs landed him in the U. S. State Department, where he had an office only three doors from that of Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was one of the youngest...
Delius Society Album No. 3 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with the BBC and Royal Opera Choruses; Columbia: 14 sides). Blind, British-born Composer Delius spent much of his youth on a Florida orange plantation, remembered the singing of Florida Negroes, later based one of his finest tone poems, Appalachia, on these memories. The four-year-old Delius Society's best album to date contains Appalachian first recording, plus a sheaf of smaller items...