Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman. In one terse, five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis' job out from under...
...Elder Statesman Stimson was still young enough to run his own show. He did, and not even Chief of Staff George Marshall ever doubted who was boss. Neither did the three strong men who came in as civilian aides: Judge Robert P. Patterson, his Under Secretary, and his Assistant Secretaries Robert A. Lovett and John Jay McCloy...
Died. Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte of Belgium, 81, elder daughter of the late King Leopold II, widow of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his mistress (Baroness Maria Vetsera), then himself, in the famed Mayerling scandal of 1889; in Hungary (according to the Brussels radio). The Princess married Hungarian Count Lonyay...
Last week the Women's Auxiliary of the Alexandria (Va.) Westminster Presbyterian Church-of which General Vaughan is an elder-were enchanted to discover that he was as excitingly frank as he was informal. They had invited him to speak, and he spoke. By the time word of his speech got back to the capital, Washington wits cracked that they had now heard the uncensored dope on all topics of national interest...
...Francis Asbury, a British harness maker's apprentice, decided to become a preacher. At 26, he came to America. During the 1784 Baltimore conference, where the Methodist Episcopal Church was formed, Preacher Asbury, as yet unordained, was on successive days ordained deacon, elder, consecrated "superintendent" and (despite John Wesley's "strong objections) immediately started calling himself Bishop...