Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebel's Plan. In Helsinki there was open revolt in Finland's biggest party, the Social Democrats. Former leader Vaino Voionmaa challenged the iron rule of the Party's present boss, Finance Minister Vaino Tanner, admirer of Hitler and strong man of Finnish politics. Elder Statesman Voionmaa demanded peace with Russia on the best terms Russia would give, the resignation of the Government, the appointment of patient old (73) Juho Kusti Paasikivi as Premier. Paasikivi is one Finn who knows how to talk business with Stalin. Voionmaa was present when Paasikivi as Foreign Minister went to Moscow...
Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...
Murray put in the Congressional hopper a bill to make into law their recommendations on contract termination. While the bill went over some ground already covered by Elder Statesmen Bernie Baruch and John Hancock in their standard termination clause (TIME, Jan. 17), it plugged up several big loopholes they missed. The bill would...
...Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward VII of Britain. When the financier died, Burleigh fulfilled his last request by singing Calvary at his funeral...
...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...