Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia and old age...
...university man. He was born in Galicia 45 years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became...
Brother Francisco had been under fire in Morocco at the age of 17, helped General Milan Astray form the Spanish Foreign Legion, and got his first working knowledge of fascism when he was picked by Dictator Primo de Rivera to act as liaison officer with the French in the Riff campaign of 1925. He won his brigadiership and the distinction of being the youngest general in Spain at the age of 34. When a military academy was established at Saragossa young Francisco Franco became its first director...
...architectural movement of his time that was distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan. While that style was coming of age in the last decade, Architect Pope made Yale Neo-Gothic, Dartmouth Neo-Georgian, designed the grandiose mass of the Archives Building in Washington, adapted Rome's Pantheon for the Mellon gallery and again for the proposed Jefferson Memorial (TIME, April...
...Harvard every Freshman is forging an unrivalled opportunity to equip himself for life in the modern world. This opportunity may be gained from contact with books in the University libraries, with the many professors and tutors with whom he will associate, and with the men of his own age with whom he will sport and learn and frolic...