Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reorganization proposed the first new department since Labor was created in 1913; Welfare, under which would function agencies like WPA, National Youth Administration and possibly the Social Security Board. It proposed also a National Resources Planning Board...
...Youth's pilgrimage to Washington last week was sponsored by the American Youth Congress which claims to be an amalgamation of some 32 U. S. youth organizations, to represent 15,000,000 U. S. citizens between 16 and 25. Actually, the A. Y. C. is composed mainly of the more militantly left-wing members of its subsidiary groups. Most articulate representative in Washington last week was Editor Vivian Liebman of the Vassar Miscellany News, who informed a Senate Subcommittee on Education & Labor, that "our future husbands will probably not graduate out of the fraternity into the flophouse. Vassar students...
...West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
Last week, in The Hill Between, Playwright Vollmer told of the mountain boy who went to the city, got lost between two worlds. As he puts it: "A man spends his youth dreaming out, and all the rest of his life dreaming back." Lula Vollmer ruined her theme by implying that all folk ways are wholesome, all city ways evil. The square dance in Act II is jolly enough. The gunshot in Act III is a little too jolly...
...forces which did not arrive until later that morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian...