Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers were two young Negroes, second-year men at Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.), one of the oldest institutions of higher learning for Negroes in the South. They were walking slowly to their rooms from the final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones...
...oldest son, August A. Busch, took charge of the Anheuser-Busch interests. He became the active head of two large St. Louis families, the Anheusers and the Busches, who have been in close marital and business relations ever since Adolphus Busch, rich immigrant, sold grain to Eberhard Anheuser, small brewer of St. Louis, and became his partner...
...Robert E. Sherwood, 70, oldest living circus clown, much impressed President Coolidge when he said that he was the first performer to turn a handspring over seven horses and two elephants. The President then replied that he used to rise, when a boy, at 2:30 a. m. so he could go to the circus. Mr. Sherwood retaliated with the presentation of the book of his life: Here We Are Again...
Garrard B. Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury, able right-hand man of Secretary Mellon, announced his resignation last week. The reason, he said, is an urgent desire to return to his law practice in .Chicago. At 44, Mr. Winston is one of the oldest of the many young men whom Secretary Mellon had lifted into important positions in the Treasury Department. Suave, diplomatic, he was often seen about town in Washington and was able to accomplish important errands for his reticent chief in Continental capitals. His most distinguished achievement was helping Secretary Mellon arrange the debt-funding agreements...
Carol Sued. Queen Marie's oldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, was defended last week in Paris by potent Socialist barrister Paul Boncour against Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his former morganatic wife (TIME, March 15, 22), who began suit to establish the legitimacy of their son Mircea. By his consort, Princess Helene of Greece, Carol had subsequently another son, Prince Michel, now aged five, and heir apparent to the Rumanian throne...