Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although currently a very touchy subject among Washington legislators, old-age pensions--and particularly the Townsend Plan--have become a very real factor in the national political arena. Dynamite because of the emotional fervor of its followers, the aged Californian's celebrated brain-child has caused, and is still causing, many a headache. An investigation into the politics played in the last congressional election is still making headlines today, and although it is doubtless too much to expect that any really objective wisdom can be shown in such an atmosphere, one nevertheless hopes that before long Congress will evolve...
...early years of the plan in addition to the oft-heard suggestion that all categories of workers be included in the payments. This would head off the fantastic reserve fund, and at the same time go a long way to satisfy the embarrassingly potent demand for large old-age pensions...
...movement that is politically so appealing as to capture both Sheridan Downey and Leverett Saltonstall cannot be ignored. Increase of retirement benefits and extension of the scope of recipients would do much, but the plan must be put permanently upon a reliable, pay-as-you-go basis. Eventually, the aged and dependent must be provided with a comprehensive program of old-age insurance, and it is generally recognized that the Federal government must provide at least a portion of the necessary funds. If so, time is of the essence, for calm, unemotional study is becoming progressively less and less possible...
...present recipients are Karl W. Deutsch, age 25, a refugee from the Sudeten area in Czechoslovakia, who received a doctor's degree in law and political science with high honors from Charles University, Prague, in 1938, and Kurt Herzfeld, age 20, a refugee from Austria, who studied a year at the University of Vienna. Both arrived in this country a few months ago. Deutsch will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, specializing in economics and political science, and Herzfeld will be an undergraduate in the College, specializing in economics...
...known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which schoolchildren now memorize...