Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elder Statesman Baruch, finally become an official member of the Administration, did not have to change his working habits. He still drew a salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk...
...glimpse of the elder J. P. Morgan's imperious bulk convinced Graduate Bernie that he wanted to be a financier. He went to work in Wall Street as an unpaid apprentice...
...appointed Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch as his personal adviser...
...Republican who has already contributed some concrete principles to the postwar discussion is Herbert Hoover. This week, in Collier's, Elder Statesman Hoover and Hugh Gibson, his onetime Ambassador to Belgium, completed a series of four notable articles...
...Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch got a wire of thanks from Mrs. Winston Churchill. She said that she and her daughters were glad to have a couple of dozen silk stockings he had slipped among the Prime Minister's effects for them...