Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking as their text the words of the Constitution (No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years. . . .), Senators enlarged for hours on their meaning. Did that mean that a Senator must be 30 when he was elected? Or when his term normally began? Or when he claimed his seat? Senator Hiram Johnson of California excused his argument against the last contention by turning to the Holt parents in the gallery and declaring: "I take this course solely because I believe it is every man's duty to do the things...
...impoverished oldsters it promised pensions. Beginning July 1 a person of 65 or more who lives in one of the 33 states which gives him an old age pension, instead of sending him to the poorhouse, will receive from the Federal Government a second pension, the same size as that given by the state, but not more than $15 a month. By a special Senate amendment poor oldsters who live in the 15 states which have no old age pension laws will get a Federal pension up to $15 a month for two years. By that time the Government expects...
...trial, Attorney C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington has assumed command of the defense staff in place of beefy, bumbling Edward J. Reilly of Brooklyn, who is now suing Hauptmann for a $25,000 fee. In the meantime Prisoner Hauptmann, never a churchman, has acquired a "spiritual adviser" in the person of one Rev. D. G. Werner from Manhattan. Under the calming influence of this Lutheran divine, Bruno Richard Hauptmann has seen four of his fellow prisoners go to death in the electric chair, the fate to which he was sentenced by a Justice of the State's Supreme Court...
...told him it was cheap and had good Negro preparatory schools. His greatest handicap at Virginia's Hampton Institute (for Negroes) was his ignorance of English. Baffled by Bantu, Hampton professors could not help him much. But when he departed after four years a classmate said, "A noble person goes on his way, conscious of his nobility...
Alice Queenie Puddifoot is a masseuse with a shop in London's Albemarle Street. Lately unkind individuals complained to the London County Council that Miss Puddifoot was no fit person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts...