Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle age might have had something to do with it. Also, thoughtful Legionnaires, watching parading Sons of the American Legion, whose average age was 17, must have recalled that the minimum U. S. draft age in the last war was 18. Nor are all Legionnaires too old to go again...
...Anyone over 25 years of age," the returning instructor explained, "has been kept so busy by Hitler's various youth organizations that he is sold on the Nazi system...
...some time I have wondered, now that Europe is at war, are we American Youths under age 30 represented in Congress? As our government is now organized the major proportion of Senators and Representatives are now in their 40's and 50's and beyond the limits for military service. Logically we American Youths who are between the ages of 21 and 30 would make up the volume of American soldiers, and should, therefore, have the right to assist in voting ourselves into a war. Why can't we be represented in Washington by a separate "Youth...
...offensives, Vandenberg went along with the New Deal far enough to find the flaws; then by reading and study mastered the technical answers to those flaws; then amended constructively. In this way he exposed the "dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when he needled the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy power project so effectively that Democrats joined him to vote them both down...
Last week FORTUNE published the first (of a series of) findings. Obtained by the FORTUNE SURVEY'S method of scientific sampling, these first results were somewhat experimental (it is harder to calculate what is a scientific cross section of business than to poll members of each age group, geographical group, social group, etc.) Findings on this first attempt...