Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting On. In San Antonio, Marcello Martinez, 118, visited the State Department of Public Welfare to ask whether he was eligible to receive an old-age pension...
...this was no New Deal revival: the New Deal, accepted and respectable with age, was by now almost old hat. Harry Truman, in an offhand phrase that was his own, not his speechwriters', had called the new era the Fair Deal. The young bloods of the 81st Congress had not come to Washington, cheering and defiant, to start a revolution. They had come to consolidate one. As the Democrats heard it, what the people really said last November was that they wanted not new highways but a widening of the roads that Franklin Roosevelt had built...
Buck called 'the coming of age of research" a fundamental quality factor of modern education which the Commission typically underemphasized in its enthusiasm for quantity. The Report in many places, he added, "is inconsistent and inaccurate." It nevertheless serves as a "signpost," In minimizing the dangers of "control" from the inevitable Federal aid, Buck stated his fear of influence upon freedom 'to experiment and to excel...
...theater's Helen Hayes said: "I'm going to be hard to win over to television. At my age [48] you don't want to learn a completely new technique. I get all trembly inside just thinking about...
...society decided that education was good and that everyone, whether or not he could afford it or had the sense to get it, should get education. The need for health care is similarly desirable--what is the sense of educating a boy if he dies of T.B. at the age...