Word: elders
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Died. Julius T. Long, 86, elder brother of Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...
...born in St. Louis in 1882 to German Jewish immigrant parents. As a freckled, gangling boy, he was unruly in school, argumentative at home, and neither his passive watchmaker father (whose nickname was "Silent" Swope) nor his bustling, matriarchal mother could ever really cope with him. His elder brother Gerard (later president of General Electric) took him in hand, tried to infuse a little discipline into this wayward spirit. Instead, Herbert strayed into journalism, then one of the more undisciplined professions, and eventually surfaced as a cub reporter for the New York Herald...
...Dean Elder to Speak...
John Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, will give the first talk on Monday, October...
Only half of the students accepted each year by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences actually show up at registration. According to Elder, the rest end up "either in Tibet or at Yale...