Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate age of the judges that causes this traffic jam. It is another the failure of the judicial framework to keep pace in size and flexibility with the needs of a growing country. Indeed a seventy year old justice can hand down a crisper opinion,--and many a trial lawyer knows it to his pain,--than one of forty, for the very reason that by his years of training in the law he knows the answers...
...stands on record as desiring a woman, any woman, in preference to a competent man. Such opposition before he takes office must be acutely embarrassing to Dr. Ham. In reality by breaking the century old tradition of its greatest fort the shows that the feminist movement has come of age. When men and women can easily replace each other in office, the latter have won their equality. Dr. Wooley's attitude sorely hurts her own cause, for not only does she act in an unsportsmanlike way, but she tells the world that her group of women are rather unsure...
...wins out in this country of ours. And the fashion trades and the sporting goods stored being so firmly intrenched in the coils of the new slippery sport, we may never see the end of it. One can at least be grateful that most skiers retire themselves at the age of 70. Official action is not necessary to speed up the descent. THERSITES...
...newcomer to the teaching business, Mr. Landis was made a full professor of law at Harvard in 1928 at the age of 29. Previous to that he had been the law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Always a scholastic leader, Landis headed his class when he was graudated from Princeton in 1921 and when he was graduated from Harvard law school three years later...
...Court but was held unconstitutional by a lower court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement age is to be 65 or 70, a vital point since thousands of railroad men are close to retirement age right...