Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise words save a nation? Could one man resolve the quarrel between free-enterprisers and the advocates of a planned economy? This week an elder statesman tried. Said 75-year-old Bernard Baruch, before the House Banking & Currency Committee...
...nation as a whole, La Follette the elder was a radical. Twice he bolted the G.O.P. to raise the Progressive banner and seek the presidency. Twice he was rejected. Wisconsin Progressivism remained a rip tide of political thought in the Republican sea. To be elected, La Follette had always to return to the G.O.P. But Fighting Bob believed that the nation would eventually embrace the Wisconsin Idea; he trained his two sons to follow; in his footsteps. When he died, plump, quiet, sleek-haired Bob Jr. went to Washington and took his father's seat in the Senate...
...Stewart Duke-Elder, Presbyterian minister's son who rose to become one of Britain's top eye specialists and Surgeon-Oculist to the King, had just come back from Buckingham Palace. His royal patient had added his personal honor to Sir Stewart's already impressive collection of medals and awards. The King, who reads through horn-rimmed glasses because of farsightedness, could thank Britain's foremost glaucoma expert for many a service to the Empire as well as to royal eyes. (Sir Stewart had also treated the Duke of Windsor, operated successfully on the Duchess...
When war came, Sir Stewart and his pretty blonde wife, Phyllis, herself a doctor, promptly joined up. Lady Duke-Elder took over management of a servicemen's hospital; Sir Stewart was commissioned a brigadier, appointed consulting ophthalmic surgeon to administer the British Army's program of eye-wound treatment. He sent eye surgeons up front to do on-the-spot operations, decreasing the chances of blindness from eye wounds from World War I's seven in ten to three in ten. Tommies who wore glasses were equipped with two pairs (tankmen got three); repair units were...
Prince William, elder son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, gravely polishing the royal crest on the family car in Devonport, Tasmania...