Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career of August Adolph Gennerich, born in 1886 in Yorkville, Manhattan's German district, had not up to that time been entirely undistinguished. At the early age of 22 he had found an occupation that admirably suited him, a job as a New York City policeman. On the force he was by turns athlete, motorcycle patrolman, hero. He was cited three times for bravery, once for capturing a earful of bandits who peppered him for a mile and a half with a machine gun until their car overturned. He was also a member of the bomb squad...
...Mennonite Board of Missions revealed that the new Social Security Act is equally incompatible with the sect's tenets. The Board wrote the Philadelphia office of the Social Security Board declaring that, although Mennonites will gladly pay the taxes the law demands, they would rather not accept old-age pensions when they fall due. An attorney for the Board wrote back to the Mennonites that this would be perfectly all right...
Some 1,200 of these Mennonites may not accept old-age pensions when they begin to come due in 1942, but 26,000,000 other U. S. citizens doubtless will. Among them is John David Sweeney Jr., blue-eyed, sturdy, unmarried, 23. After graduating last June from Princeton, where he belonged to Colonial Club, he took a month off in Bermuda, then went to work as shipping clerk in his father's business the Royal Eastern Electrical Supply Co. of Brooklyn. He lives with his family in a 15-room house in suburban New Rochelle, N. Y. Like...
...another housemaid, Hendrickje Stoffels (Elsa Lanchester, Mrs. Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...
...Kahn became chairman of its Board of Trustees three years ago. The first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of U. S. architects trained at Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Institute had begun to show signs of declining into old age. The idea of the founders had been to set up a central agency of architects which would license any group of five or more students as an atelier, project problems for them, judge and grade the resulting drawings...