Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Koppel Bier, a butcher of Hoboken, N. J., 104 years of age, called at the White House and promised Mr. Coolidge the votes of himself and 146 descendants...
Baron Inchcape became a viscount. Lord Inchcape is Chairman of the Peninsula and Oriental, and the British India Steam Navigation Companies. He has considerable interests in India and is a well known banker. He is 71 years of age...
...Charles John Darling became a baron. He is 74 years of age and resigned a few weeks ago after 26 years' service as a Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. He is celebrated for his wit, which very often can turn to biting sarcasm. He is also a poet...
...Herbert Merton Jessel was made a baron. He served in the Ministry of Supply during the War and can be termed a soldier-politician, having joined the 17th Lancers, one of Britain's crack regiments, when 20 years of age. Aged 57, he has been an M.P. several times. It was he who carried the Old Age Pensions Act through the House of Commons...
...Frederick George Banbury likewise became a baron. He is 73 years of age, has been Conservative M. P. for over 17 years and is Chairman of the Great Northern Railway...