Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardly one of our laity realizes the disgraceful truth that our Church, the richest communion in the richest land on earth, pays faithful servants who retire because of age an average pension of $76 per month; that she pays those forced by illness into earlier retirement about $65 per month; that she has the coldhearted callousness to pay the aged widows of deceased clergy the miserable pension of $31 monthly...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
...which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...
Although crusty old (67) Martin W. Clement passed the voluntary retirement age two years ago, he stayed right on as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. To some oldtime Pennsy men, it seemed that the road could never operate without his tight rule. But this week he is relaxing his hold. He will retire as president to become the first chairman of the board in the Pennsy's 103-year history...
...James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...