Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainties. Last week a pamphlet was issued by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. It is to be distributed to members of all the Federated unions (some 3,350,000). It is to tell them that 1,000,000 children between 10 and 16 years of age are working in the nation's industries. It is to tell them that they should urge the ratification, the resuscitation, the resurrection of the Child Labor Amendment...
...Detroit, a school census was taken. The result showed 313,973 children of school age-an increase of almost 30,000 since last year. Estimating the population of the city as four times the number of school children, Detroit has a population of 1,255,892; "Greater Detroit," a population of $1,500,000. In 1921 a city census showed a population of 942,373. "The fastest growing city in the world," cried boosters...
...dismissal. He was reappointed by the War Office to command the French Army in Salonica, eventually becoming the Allied Commander-in-Chief. After a not very successful campaign, he was recalled at the end of 1917; and in the following April was placed in the reserve, having reached the age limit. There he stayed until 1924 when, in succession to General Weygand, he was made French High Commissioner in Syria...
...many additions and corrections that will be made to your article (July 20, Page 16, on "The Age of College Presidents"), allow me to add the experience of Bowdoin College...
...Witt Hyde was elected President before he had reached his 27th birthday, and is consequently to be regarded as a younger college president than any given in the list of the Detroit News. The present head of the College, Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, was elected at the age of 38. Bowdoin College since its foundation in 1794 has had but eight presidents. The average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton was elected...