Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some elder surgeons came to watch the novice do an operation. Not having much idea how to proceed, Dr. Young said to one of the visitors: "In your august presence, Dr. Cupples, I could not think of doing this operation." The flattered surgeon promptly took over. But young Dr. Young collected the $40 fee, used it for carfare to Baltimore...
...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...
...important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...
...might have to wait some time. For at week's end Generalissimo Franco played his own prince. Through "informed diplomatic quarters" he let it be known that he was thinking of offering the kingship to Prince Alfonso Jaime, 9, son of Pretender Don Juan's elder (and deaf) brother Don Jaime, 37, who renounced his claim to the throne...
Premier Kantaro Suzuki held another emergency meeting with his Cabinet, conferred with Japan's elder statesmen, ex-Premiers Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Admiral Keisuke Okada, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Koki Hirota, Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso. He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a "general jurisdictional matter...