Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting in touch with the opposition and finding out their objections to the 13-year-old proposal, which read: "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age." Mr. Vandenberg finally edited this text to read: "The Congress shall have power to limit and prohibit the employment for hire of persons under 16 years of age...
...they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful and poker-faced, Premier Chautemps at 52 can look back upon a career which, until he entered politics, ran with exceptional smoothness in the groove of barrister. Brilliant, he first was called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal political family, he became Mayor of Tours after the War, slipped into his first Cabinet post under Herriot in 1924. On two subsequent occasions he was Premier for short periods, thrust forward by more prominent statesmen as a safe Middle-of-the-Roader...
...interview 5,000 citizens each quarter. The 5,000-person "sample" is a carefully gauged cross-section of the U. S., proportional to geographic divisions (e.g., 7% from the Pacific Coast), to rural v. urban population (e.g., 56% from cities, 44% from the country), to economic levels, sex, age, occupation, color, size of community. Only adults are interviewed. Results are believed to be accurate for the U. S. as a whole within a 2 % margin of error...
...last week became the possessor of a new job and title when executives of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., convening in French Lick, Ind., announced his appointment as dean of the Wurlitzer School of Music. The school has 100 studios in the East, teaches 25,000 students, mainly of high-school age, how to play Wurlitzer instruments. About half study the accordion. Next favorite is the saxophone. Students start out on a simple course costing about $1.25 a week, including use of the instrument. Well-advertised Dean Spaeth will have charge of all schools, plans to tour them soon with Accordionist Charles...
...mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college he smarted, did little studying, because the main honors went automatically to sons of the nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against the college a blast of irony...