Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 to see the possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from Senior...
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...
...were two upsets in the earlier rounds. Howard Kahn third seeded John Palfrey in a quarter final round grueller, while unseeded Dickinson ousted Chester Legg '40 in an earlier round. Another surprise came when Arthur Brooks '39 defeated Jack Stewart '40 to gain the distinction of being the only senior in the quarter finals. Walter Muther '40 gave Burt his stiffest battle before succumbing in three sets...
...Princeton, N. J., who posted 79. The following day, while the majority of players were dampened by an annoying drizzle (only four broke 90), Mrs. Howe ran away from the field. Her 36-hole total of 159 set a new record for the U. S. Women's Senior Golf championship...
Winthrop starters are: ends, H. Daughaday and Bowie; tackles, Harris and P. Butler; guards, Binnian and Eustis; center, H. Smith; backs, Ford Weller, Senior, and J. Butler...