Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them...
...Victorian age," said he, "will sooner or later come to be appreciated once more as a great and spacious time when men still had leisure and it was not necessary to specialize...
...age-old theory that Harvard, because of its location or some tradition at individualism, has less need for vocational guidance than other universities, is entirely out of date. Harvard seniors in this age of manifold interests, are less and less able to determine which offers submitted by numberless business concerns, are adapted to their abilities or to their tastes. It is increasingly clear to me, after discussing vocational questions for the past three years, that the great majority of Harvard seniors have no idea which held of business activity they wish to enter. They have seized eagerly any information...
...Roger Steffan, onetime Ohio grocery boy, came last week a vice presidency in National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading...
...National City Co. at 39 and of National City Bank at 44. National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler was 43 when (TIME, April 8) he took office. And Robert Livingston Clarkson, now absent because of illness, became president of Chase National last year at the same age that Mr. Steffan is today...