Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sage of Age, who knows what Jameson if you don't get there Early, ponders momentarily and drops his vote in the Booth with Harding a Russell; Harvard 14 - Army 13. Wheeeeee who knows Bunty may be wrong...
Sweeping the country in epidemic proportions, a new old-age pension fever has suddenly loomed as a prime political issue. Since it has already decided several crucial elections, and since it undoubtedly will decide several more, there is small wonder that demagogues have seized upon it as the most likely fertilizer for a bumper crop of votes. Both camps are guilty of rosy promises, but most striking is their use by New Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate...
...military training, children begin long marches at the age of 10. and 15-year-olds are expected to march 13∧ miles a day with an eleven-pound load. Result: an abnormal increase in the prevalence of fiat feet, a trait Nazis attribute to non-Aryans. Of youths conscripted in 1936. some 38% were found unfit for military service for this reason...
Died. James William Sullivan, 90, printer, proofreader, editor, "Father of the Initiative and Referendum Movement" in the U.S., friend & adviser of Single Taxer Henry George and A.F. of L. President Samuel Gompers; of old age; in Carlisle...
...slogging over the plains, it is the reader who suffers most. This beginning goes way back to the heroine's girlhood in Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters is to let the heroine reach a marriageable age before she goes West. When she marries an ambitious farmer and goes to the San Joaquin Valley to settle down, the tale begins to move...