Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit payments and making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...
...memorial exhibition was last week staged at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Selected with the collaboration of three top-flight artists-Guy Pène du Bois, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll-it honored their friend William James Glackens, who died last May at the age...
...Christmas Day of 1938, the world which Christ's coming had been meant to save, the age which had vainly taken his name for nearly 2,000 years, were a world and an age in which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...
Newshawks, who had not had such a story in a coon's age, went to Brooklyn to call on a character named George Vernard, who had represented one of Coster's dummy agents and was also wanted by the police. They found a car being packed with luggage outside his door. Police arrived and arrested Mr. Vernard, who admitted that his real name was Arthur Musica. It then came out that George Dietrich was really George Musica and George's brother Robert, who also worked for McKesson & Robbins, was a fourth Musica brother, Robert, never before mentioned...
Heart Lesions. Atherosclerosis (fatty elevations in the arteries supplying the heart and brain) is frequently fatal. Ever since he graduated from medical school at the age of 22, Dr. Alfred Steiner of New York City's Department of Hospitals has been interested in atherosclerosis. Last week young Dr. Steiner told how he had cured rabbits of this disease. First he produced atherosclerosis in ten rabbits by feeding them cholesterol (a pearly substance found in all animal fats). He then mixed small amounts of diluted choline, a ptomaine, with the rabbits' carrots. Result: after two months...