Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further, he had cast his first vote in the U. S. at the age...
Explanations: 1) Major Putnam was born in England, though his parents were U. S. citizens. A formal declaration at the age of 21 of his desire to be a U. S. citizen was all that was needed, but Major...
Putnam was busy fighting in the Civil War when 21. 2) If England chooses to allow Major Putnam to vote, because he owns property and pays taxes there, that in no way invalidates his U. S. vote. 3) Major Putnam's first vote, at the age of 20, was cast for President Lincoln's reelection, but as Major Putnam was in Libby Prison at the time, his vote was not counted anyway...
Professor Andre Siegfried, French sociologist, at one point in his book, America Comes of Age, remarks: "The great newspapers, as everyone knows, live entirely by their advertising. Logically, therefore, they are bound to fall sooner or later under the influence of high finance and big business which pays for publicity. . . . The national interests thus possess an effective means of moulding the public to their ends by withholding what they think it should not know and presenting each subject from the desired angle...
Admission to cinema entertainment in the U. S. varies between $3.30 and lof4 depending on the age of the film and the amount of rococo in the theatre. Whatever the price, those who pay may well feel the need of a chart...