Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since age purged the U. S. Supreme Court for Franklin Roosevelt, his four appointees this week lined up to give the New Deal a victory which it could not have had otherwise. Hugo Black (no dissenter for once) ruled for himself as well as Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, Bill Douglas that bonds previously payable in gold dollars or foreign currency equal to their gold dollar value are now payable in devalued Roosevelt dollars. Owen Roberts agreed, in the first 5-to-4 decision of the current term. Dissenters: Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Stone and (as usual) Justices McReynolds...
...average age of the class was found to be 20.6 years...
...Zylstra 2G, who won $100 for the best thesis on a subject in the field of Comparative Literature for his essay, "Hoffman in English and American Literature"; to David R. Simboli '40, who received $50, for the best undergraduate essay for he field of Comparative Literature concerning the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; and $75 to Karl T. Soule, Jr, 39 for the best undergraduate essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish Literature of the Golden Age...
...encouraged; protection was granted to both agriculture and industry. The Prussian railroads were bought for the Prussian State, and the Social Democratic trade unions were won over to the paternalistic system partly because of the general pre-War prosperity and partly because Bismarck had introduced sickness, accident and old-age insurance for wage-earners...
Henry Putnam Jr. tripled his father's fortune, came at last to old age and the problem of how to dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although...