Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pels has spent long hours pondering the State of the Union. With reservations, he has been a lifelong Single Taxer.* He is close to the New Deal, is a constant adviser to Publisher Julius David Stern, in whose Philadelphia Record he is a stockholder and director. In his book, This Changing World, published in 1933 but written before, he came to the conclusion that money & banking was the weak factor in capitalism, outlined what for all practical purposes was NRA and set up what are supposed to be the New Deal's long-range objectives. Wrote...
...proclaim February as the first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME, Dec. 16), now receives as a holder of the Order of Lenin a lifelong pension and a pass permitting him to travel free twice a year on Soviet railways, boats, airplanes, trams and busses...
...last rites, simple but majestic, were performed by George V's lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
...these years his daughter had to listen to almost continuous public attacks on the way her father made his money, his love of display, his "secret government" of the U. S. It gave her a lifelong horror of publicity and all forms of ostentation. In 1901 Abby Aldrich married a young man who thought the same way about great wealth for the same reasons. His name was John D. Rockefeller...
...have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first...