Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment insurance plan of the Act, he declared, should be left to the states. For the Federal Government's share in the Social Security program he suggested enlargement of the present old-age pension system to "provide for every American citizen over 65 the supplementary payment necessary to give him a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want...
...Grand Army which tottered down six blocks of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue at its 70th Encampment last week was a sentimental relic which, by Death and the dimming of old passions, had been stripped of political power for a generation. Of the 355 parading oldsters, whose average age was 92, only 170 crickety survivors of the mighty march of 1883 were able to hobble along at a funeral pace under their own power. The rest rode in automobiles. Bulking far larger than veterans in the parade and in Washington Hotel lobbies were the proud, full-bosomed Ladies...
...editor of the Living Age and Howe is an editor and publisher. Jackson is a former Washington newspaper man, who was associated with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in its early days...
...realm of ancient cultures, the Harvard staff will be assisted by one of England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry...
...Lecturer on Avestan in the first half year Harvard will have Herbert P. Houghton, since 1923 professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College. Before going to Carleton, Dr. Houghton was President of Waynesburg College 1915-18; and President of Carrol College, Wisconsin, 1918-20. At the age of forty, he was ordained as a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1923-29 was rector of All Saints Church, Northfield, Minn...