Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle stations, that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that Europe should get off its hunkers. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch seemed to share this mood. Back from a quick trip to Europe, he was asked whether Europe might help itself more if the U.S. helped it less. "There's a heap of sense in that," he said...
...elder Ford's weekly Dearborn Independent printed such anti-Semitic rantings as the spurious "Protocols of Zion." Hit with a $1,000,000 libel suit (he paid $75,000 out of court), Ford publicly disclaimed anti-Semitism and suspended the Independent...
...together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf...
...elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose, a quieter and steadier Congressman, was South Calcutta's delegate to the West Bengal Assembly until his death last year...
Bureaucrat's Lawyer. The Black Tom case brought McCloy to the attention of a shrewd judge of men, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson. In 1940, when Stimsori went to Washington as Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of War, he made McCloy his special consultant on German espionage...