Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawn your conclusions a little early in the game? Time will tell. David Windsor is in the forefront of the battle for human rather than property rights, and for the spirit of marriage as opposed to the Letter of the Law. He stands in a symbolic relation to his age, and will influence it as his brother never will...
...under the Social Security Act, retirement age is 65. Railroaders would retire at any time after 30 years' service if physically or mentally disabled, or if in good health and having 30 years' service as early as 60 (sacrificing one-fifteenth of their pension for each year they retire before 65). Or they could even continue working after...
...friends had advanced his name for nomination as a judge of the circuit court. Professor Corwin blushingly confessed under pressure that he had said only last year that there were serious objections to "packing" the Court. Justin Miller received his comeuppance while he was propounding a theory that the age of Justices of the Supreme Court was proportional to the number of laws they found unconstitutional. One of two women spectators sitting together passed up a note to Senator Van Nuys...
Would you mind answering it? 'Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation...
...Midnight on the Desert" stands out as a document of our age. It might well prove a reference book to future theorists who attempt to understand the inner workings of the Twentieth Century mind. Priestley's smoothly flowing style and his calm and unhurried manner make this book more of a friendly chat that a formal discourse on life and contemporary topics. As we turn the last pages, we feel that we have come to know J. B. Priestley better than Dr. Johnson, perhaps better even, than our own friends. This book is more than an "Excursion into Autobiography...