Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the President called for a National Service Act, everybody talked at once. Hot arguments about the motives and the merits of the President's proposal flew back & forth. Then an Elder Statesman spoke-and the momentary silence that followed his words showed a shamefaced realization that at his own moral level there was no reply. Secretary of War Stimson, whose years have carried him beyond party and personal ambition, appeared last week before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to plead for the National Service Act. His appeal was directed straight to the conscience of every American. He said...
Three Clubmen. Many of their routines are now remembered by Broadway's elder denizens with a nostalgia like their memories of Barrymore's Hamlet or Lillian Russell's corsetry. There was, for example, the team's greeting to customers who were also their personal friends...
...principal one is that the stresses & strains of any centralized policy for an Empire of widely different peoples and interests might well split the Commonwealth asunder. Canada's new High Commissioner, able Lawyer Burchell, is just the man to explain the East Block's views to Elder Statesman Smuts...
Senator Carter Glass, reigning eagle of the capital's elder statesmen, last-ditch foe of funny finance, good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, passed his 86th birthday in his Washington apartment receiving friends, letters, cakes, and an autographed photograph of the President...
When a solution seemed finally impossible, the hot potato was tossed over to Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch and his assistant, ex-Wall Street Banker John Milton Hancock. The two cooled it off in just two months and two days. Then the Baruch-Hancock combination presented Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes with a contract-cancellation clause, ready-made to fit almost all fixed-fee contracts. Promptly Czar Jimmy ordered it put into effect. Its two main points...