Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer home the irreducibility of big Government expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
...Zealand is not only breathtakingly beautiful but socially remarkable. Her history has been marked by long and clear-cut periods of alternate radicalism and conservatism. Between 1890 and 1912 a progressive Government passed graduated income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
...Manhattan's myriad art galleries last week mustered the season's most varied array of fine arts. Just for perspective, the great Metropolitan Museum invited visitors back 2,000 years with a bimillennium exhibition of hard-bitten Roman portrait sculpture and charming Roman craftsmanship of the Age of Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.). The Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared at the Julien Levy Gallery in canvases by softspoken, curly...
...photography, realistic painting has come back in exquisite disarray in the works of Surrealists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, et al. The vogue for their delicately painted dream pictures has caused a slighter vogue for "trompe l'ceil" (fool the eye) paintings, a form of virtuosity in every age since the birds came to peck at Apelles' painted grapes. Eyefoolers were, in fact, a popular specialty in the U. S. 60 years ago. Last week in Detroit an interesting U. S. Eyefooler of that period made news when it was snapped up by the U. S. Government...
...Lloyd Cassel Douglas' family have a way of blossoming at the age of 50. His father, a worldly, small-town lawyer for 30 years, suddenly turned preacher. He himself, though he wanted to be a doctor, was also a preacher for three sober decades. In the midst of a series of essays on Personality Expansion Through Private Philanthropy, he decided to write a novel. Magnificent Obsession, published (1929) when he was 52, sold about 225,000 copies. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932) and Green Light (1935) sold 267,256 copies. Reason: in his novels he kept right on writing...