Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government is charged with responsibility for steadying and improving the economic situation of its citizens," he said. "Unemployment compensation, old age pensions, and various forms of relief have become firmly established" duties, he declared, "but equality of opportunity . . . depends on attention to . . . housing, health, and education...
...cooperation with Phillips Brooks House, HDC will invite persons of high school age and older to view weeknight performances of the play from the balcony of Sanders Theater. Of the 700 seats in the balcony, 500 will be allocated at each performance to settlement house groups...
Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...
...squat, articulate Dr. Fishbein was still full of energy and plans. Said he: "I don't feel like relaxing. There is no fixed retirement age for human beings. I have been associated recently with five men over 80 in the medical profession, and they are still doing great work...
English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...