Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until Robert Marion La Follette Jr. took his seat in the Senate at the age of 30 (in 1925), the youngest Senator ever to sit legally was Luke Lea of Tennessee, aged 31, in 1911. Henry Clay of Kentucky sat in 1806, when he was 29, but in doing so he took a liberty with the Constitution. Had Luke Lea been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee...
...take an unmistakably pro-Jewish line was strongly suggested by the tone of his next proclamation at Jerusalem: "I have learned with horror of atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood-thirsty evildoers, of savage murders perpetrated upon the defenseless members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron, by acts of unspeakable savagery. . . . My first duties are to restore order in the country and inflict stern punishment upon those found guilty of the acts of violence. I charge all inhabitants of Palestine to assist...
...drug seizure of 500 cans of ether in Boston, 400 in Providence, R. I. The seizures were similar to those which food-&-drug men constantly make. Ether is made from alcohol and sulphuric acid. Carelessly made it may contain harmful peroxides and aldehydes. Carefully made it may deteriorate with age or on exposure to light, heat or air. Consequently, manufacturers distribute it in small containers to ensure fresh supplies at wholesale houses and hospitals...
...average for the rural district is seven. There is 7.7% illiteracy in rural districts and 4.4 in the city. The difference in health defects is startling. Eye defects: rural 23%, city 12. Defective teeth: rural 48%, city 33. Only 25.7% of the rural children 15 to 18 years of age are in high school as compared with 71.1% in the city...
...taxed at the headquarters office in a far away place. ... In Iowa there is an average of 200 boys and girls per county leaving the country for the city each year. This means that the total investment (per county) of $800,000 (the cost of their education to the age of 18) ... is taken out never to be returned. . . . Those gigantic mergers in industry and finance . . . sap the farm . . . produce scores of new millionaires each year...