Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This November, mail carriers will distribute to all the 31,000,000 homes in the U. S. cards containing 14 questions to be answered by anyone partly or wholly unemployed. In addition to name, age, sex, race, the answers to the questions should indicate when the recipient worked last, what at, how much work he did in the previous week and year, whom he supports, whether anyone else in his family is unemployed. Franklin Roosevelt is to give a "fireside" broadcast urging all unemployed to fill out cards. The Post Office Department - whose James Aloysius Farley may by that time...
Last week came evidence to prove that Tom Heflin's infinite persistence merited not sympathy but admiration. A quick question from the Birmingham News & Age Herald's Russell Kent caught Attorney-General Homer Stille Cummings off guard, forced him to admit that Mr. Heflin had been doing some kind of nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll...
Before rounding off his life with an autobiography and beginning to haggle with a publisher, many a great man waits until he nears three score and ten. Last week Mrs. Helen Wills Moody of San Francisco published her autobiography. Fifteen-Thirty*-15 for the age when she won her first National championship (junior), 30 for the age when she began to write her book...
Watercolor: Publicity Writer Patricia Coffin, 25, whose first drawing, age eight, was of a rhinoceros...
...Star-Wagon (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). In the preface to his verse tragedy Winterset, Playwright Anderson announced his abiding belief in poetry for the stage, but prophesied that it would triumph only when "an age of reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright...