Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest house on the Annapolis grounds, the white glazed-brick quarters of the U. S. Naval Academy's Superintendent have been occupied since 1934 by onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet, David Foote Sellers. Rear Admiral Sellers reaches .the navy's statutory retirement age of 64 next February. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced the name of his successor who will move in as Superintendent next Feb. i: Rear Admiral Wilson Brown Jr., now commander of the U. S. fleet's training detachment...
...become Ambassador to Great Britain, he was followed in Herbert Hoover's Cabinet by his able assistant, Ogden Livingston Mills. This week, Andrew Mellon was followed by his junior again. Not quite six weeks after "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" died of old age in Southampton, L. I, Ogden Mills, 53, died of heart failure in Manhattan...
...Balish's first partner was a truant officer. A poverty-stricken boy from Manhattan's East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved...
Believing that "a course taken under compulsion at the college age" would not meet the need, President Conant appointed a committee of the faculty to prepare an "extra-curricular reading list" for the purpose...
...long held that the roots of true poetry are thrust deep in the traditions of centuries. His is not the frigid, classical view of the pedant, however, for he knows that poetry changes with the decades. But poetry to him is sacred, and in an age of frantic, formless compositions whose only worth lies in the white heat at which they are forged, Mr. Hillyer's poetry strikes a sure note. A sincere consideration of "A Letter to Robert Frest and Others" proves that Mr. Hillyer's poetry will stand the test of time...