Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson to endorse Wendell Willkie. Hiram Johnson himself said: "Of course, if they hadn't agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...
Showman Rose last week showed repoiters a Rubens, a Titian, an Ambrosius Holbein (elder brother of the more famed Hans the Younger), which he bought from Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Galleries. The Rubens, a portrait of Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had been until lately in one of Europe's ex-royal families. The Titian, Portrait of a Nobleman, came from a Vienna museum. Said Mr. Rose: "The money that I have made has come from the public. If my collection grows important enough to warrant turning it over to the public after my death...
...could tighten the allegiance to the Crown-preferably Royalty. After the death of popular Baron Tweedsmuir, the Duke of Devonshire turned down the job. Last April it was given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, who is known to his elder sister. Queen Mary, as "Algie." His wife is Princess Alice, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Earl of Athlone was appointed to the post in 1914, but at the outbreak of World War I decided to stay home and fight...
...long training for the job. Strasser fought through all four years of World War I. He led the workers' militia against the generals who tried to over throw the Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts...
...months at the date of confinement)," said Dr. Fairfield, "was further remarkable because the putative father of her baby was also only 13. Of the paternity there can be no absolute certainty, but the little fellow had no doubt himself and even went so far as to borrow his elder brother's long trousers and bowler hat to visit his offspring with becoming dignity. He had indeed performed the . . . impossible, for it is an 'irrebuttable presumption' of English law that a boy under 14 cannot procreate a child." Next week the world's youngest mother...