Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remedies for labor shortages Elder Statesman Hoover called for the import of Mexicans, stopping the draft of farm workers, furloughs for farm-bred soldiers during harvests. Prices must be high enough to encourage production; vaguely, he added, retail ceilings should be abandoned in favor of fixed prices "as near the farm as possible...
...reasonable demand which fair-minded men would require; and that in order to make it possible for England to make a peace with other than a Hitler Government, they would guarantee that Hitler would be retired and devote his remaining years to painting and writing as an elder statesman...
...people cheered last September when Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch's Special Rubber Inquiry Committee came up with proposals which sounded as if they would solve the rubber problem to the eventual satisfaction of the civilian and military alike. They sang hosannas when Union Pacific's tough William M. Jeffers was put in charge of translating that program into action. Bill Jeffers made the Baruch report his bible, dared one and all to cross his path. But last week it looked as if the Government had made up its mind that in demanding all the synthetic rubber...
...dopesters who had earlier laid their bets on 47-year-old Gene Holman for president (TIME, Jan. 4) these two moves looked like a logical interregnum-for Elder Statesman Gallagher has only three years to go before reaching Standard's retirement age (65). As if to underline that conclusion Standard's directors last week refrained from moving any other top-notcher up to fill the post of chairman of the board...
Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France...