Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert M. LaFollette Jr. is to be a U. S. Senator before long, what sort of Senator will he be? There are two LaFollette scions: Robert M. Jr. and Philip. Robert Jr. has never held public office. He is 30, the minimum age for entering the Senate.* Philp is 28. He is District Attorney of Dane County (the county in which Madison, the state capital, is situate), the same job in which his father entered on his political career...
...also written a pamphlet against cigaret smoking and a discourse on why English should be a universal language. He collects American antiques. He has built a golf course for his employes and plays on it. He has opinions on politics; opinions and a hand in business. Age (62) cannot wither his infinite variety. He is always riding in many vehicles...
...Marshal, 69 years of age, a lean and comparatively young looking man, immediately left for Morocco, crossing the water by airplane...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...
...more venerable professors of Liverpool University last week grunted wrathfully. They were advised by their Chancellor, his Lordship the Earl of Derby, that those among them who had achieved the age of 65 would straightway be requested to retire. The old gentlemen were unanimous in protesting that, if the rule were to stand, pensions more adequate than the present ones should be arranged...