Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down an integrated and meaningful scheme for the four-year curriculum. On the contrary, he dates the beginning of our current intellectual anarchy a century back and he predicts the achievement of "an educational basis for a unified, coherent culture suited to a democratic country in a scientific age" a century ahead. Today, the educational program which Mr. Lewis seeks does not exist...
...With old age pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress...
...McMasters ran for Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate Curley and Candidate Saltonstall, but most for the latter. After their deal last week the blue-blood candidate and the old age promoter broke bread together like old frineds friends. In its latest form, the Townsend Plan proposes Federal pensions, up to a maximum of $200 per month, for all persons 60 or over...
...industrial Revolution inspired cordwaining Chamberlains to leave London and leather, start making screws in Birmingham in the Midlands, which was for them like having taken a Covered Wagon in dangerous search of Opportunity. In 1854, at the age of 18, the present Prime Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...
...membership was 63,848,094, an increase of 754,138 adults. Of the total U. S. population, 49.9% were affiliated with a church, as compared to 19.9% in 1880. Biggest U. S. denomination: the Roman Catholic, with 21,322,688 members (15,492,016 over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church on the Sabbath. Of his figures he said: "They are impressive indices of the presence in the American commonwealth of faith and hope and love...