Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Automobile Workers of America, no labor leader of the past year has achieved more fame than the Auto Workers' brisk and boyish president, Homer Martin. Eight months ago, armed with contracts from General Motors and Chrysler, a membership of 375,000, an overflowing treasury and the enthusiasm of youth, the U. A. W. prepared to shift into high and charge the unconquered Ford fortress. Last week the sound of grinding gears could still be heard...
...notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
...classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked for the Berne patent office and pondered the structure of the world...
...giving the youth of England and America an opportunity for better mutual understanding, Rhodes hoped to cement the bonds between the two countries. Inasmuch as the present type of Rhodes Scholar is often too immature or one-sided, a broader type of man, more capable of truly representing the American nation, should be chosen; and in the present-day world, this is particularly important. Intelligent cooperation among the democracies of the world is essential to world peace, and such cooperation will never be possible while it remains in the realm of academic theorizing. Men of practical ability, willing to play...
...THIS that we educate our Youth...