Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine went in 1936, so did the nation not go. In this week's "barometer" election, her three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios...
...hailed him, and parents of ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with his up-tilted head and rolling gait, Professor Wiener is as famous...
Died. Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe. 97, onetime (1879-94) publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer (now owned by Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels), Confederate veteran who always frowned when the word "Yankee" was used in his presence; of old age; in Raleigh...
...licensed U. S. amateur operators, an enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from 8 to So, include radio repairmen, engineers, corporation executives, bellhops, coal miners, women, small girls, professional men. Their stations are worth anywhere from $25 to $35,000. They are called in by the army, navy and the Red Cross to assist in times of disaster, set up emergency communication systems...
...includes explanations of U. S. foreign policy invaluable to future historians, as well as cranky comments about the Jews, weary descriptions of Theodore Roosevelt's energy (Adams felt tired just thinking about Roosevelt), and descriptions of Adams' difficulties in learning to drive his Mercedes at the age of 66. It ends on a note of unqualified despair. Adams died seven months before the Armistice. By means of an elaborate mathematical formula, he had calculated that society would collapse in 1917. By 1912 he thought he had given society five years too many. But by 1917 he was sure...