Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tides in Men. It used to be that when U.S. citizens aged, they had earned and saved their competence, or their kin kept them. The New Deal changed all that. The New Deal quoted technologists to show that the enormous and soulless modern industrial machine (about which Engineer Herbert Hoover used to worry) throws oldsters on an "economic scrap-heap." Like the New Deal Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning...
Sheridan Downey knows all this and since getting nominated has backed away from "Ham & Eggs" as gracefully as possible. The scheme, he says, is a local effort to solve the "senior citizen" problem to which, if he gets to the Senate, he will bend his best talents on a national scale. He will vote for it, he says, "as a Californian," but he has made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt who has condemned "Ham & Eggs" in no uncertain terms...
...explosions, ambushes, traps, gun battles and get aways that even devoted lovers of adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...
...European celebrity at the age of 20. But his mature years as a concert artist were closely bound up with the U. S. From 1900 on he made some 25 U. S. concert tours. Eventually he made the U. S. his permanent home, became a U. S. citizen, married a U. S. woman, Clara Clemens, concert-singing daughter of Author Mark Twain...
...characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season...