Cole Porter
Let’s Misbehave 1927
Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love 1928
You Do Something to Me 1929
Night And Day, The Gay Divorcee, 1934
I've Got You Under My Skin - Born to Dance (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap9BZo18Tss
Night and day you are the one
only you beneath the moon or under the sun
whether near to me or far, it's no matter darling
where you are
I think of you
day and night, night and day
why is it so that this longing for you
follows where ever I go
in the roaring traffics boom, in the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
night and day, day and night
under the hide of me , there's an oh such a hungry yearning burning
inside of me
and this torment won’t be through
‘til you let me spend my life making love to you
day and night, night and day
The economic turmoil of the Great Depression profoundly impacted the Greatest Generation, leaving its members with the desire to end poverty and create economic opportunities. As a result of their drive, this generation is recognized for their success in later years.
In part a result of the Great Depression and World War 2, this generation developed great resilience in surviving hardship and solving problems. Below are a few characteristics that define the Greatest Generation.
Personal Responsibility: The harsh reality of the Great Depression forced many to a higher standard of personal responsibility, even as children.
Humility: The Great Depression fostered modesty and humility in many of those who lived through scarcity.
Work Ethic: Hard work enabled survival during both the depression and the war. Many jobs at the time were physically demanding, with long hours.
Frugality: Saving every penny and every scrap helped families survive through times of shortage. “Use it up, fix it up, make it do, or do without” was a motto of their time.
Commitment: One job or one marriage often lasted an entire lifetime.
Integrity: People valued honesty and trustworthiness, values fostered by the need to rely on one another.
Self-Sacrifice: Millions sacrificed to defend their country or support the war effort from home.
Millennials, 1981 to 1996, Generation Y, Gen Y grew up around the turn of the3rd millennium. The Pew Research Center reported that Millennials surpassed the Baby Boomers in U.S. numbers in 2019, with an estimated 71.6 million Boomers and 72.1 million Millennials.
Generation Z (Gen Z, "Zoomers"), 1997 to 2012 [include whiny, self-obsessed weakists]
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha), early 2010s to mid-2020s. First born entirely in the 21st century. As of 2015, there were some two-and-a-half million people born every week around the globe, and Gen Alpha is expected to reach two billion in size by 2025.
The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust. The programme was supported, publicised and encouraged by the British Government. Importantly the British Government waived all those visa immigration requirements which were not within the ability of the British Jewish Community to fulfil. The British Government put no number limit on the programme - it was the start of World War II that brought the program to an end, at which time about 10,000 kindertransport children had been brought to the Unitied Kingdom.
The term "kindertransport" is also sometimes used for the rescue of mainly Jewish children, but without their parents, from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Holland, Belgium, and France. An example is the 1,000 Chateau de La Hille children who went to Belgium. However, often, the "kindertransport" is used to refer to the organised programme to the United Kingdom.
--- Sir Nicholas George WintonMBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WW2. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's transport").
His work went unnoticed by the world for over 50 years, until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme That's Life!, where he was reunited with several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler." In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia". On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. He died in 2015 at the age of 106. --- World Jewish Relief (then called the Central British Fund for German Jewry) was established in 1933 to support in whatever way possible the needs of Jews both in Germany and Austria. Records for many of the children who arrived in the UK through the Kindertransports are maintained by World Jewish Relief.
The British Kindertransport programme was unique - no other country had a similar program. In the United States, the Wagner–Rogers Bill was introduced in Congress, but due [is anyone surprised?] to much opposition, it never left Committee.
