Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by the people, convened in the afternoon, the drama of free-speech government began. Little Paul Löbe, who had been president of the Reichstag until Göring took over in 1932, was temporary president because, nearing 74, he was the oldest delegate in the house...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...
Last week, when the New Mexican celebrated its 100th birthday,* it had long since broken its neutrality promise, was not only the oldest newspaper in the West but one of the most politically powerful little dailies (circ. 10,565) in the U.S. In honor of its centennial, the New Mexican published a 124-page edition, in which such long-departed local heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico...
since broken its neutrality promise, was not only the oldest newspaper in the West but one of the most politically powerful little dailies (circ. 10,565) in the U.S. In honor of its centennial, the New Mexican published a 124-page edition, in which such long-departed local heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico's Governor' Thomas Mabry long enough to print a historical sketch under Mabry...
...Mitty (65) of San Francisco, who is highly rated for his work on social problems; Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (71) of Cincinnati, and Archbishop Francis P. Keough (58) of Baltimore, both leaders in the National Catholic Welfare Conference. In Canada, rumors centered on Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec (the oldest Roman Catholic see in North America), Archbishop Alexander Vachon of Ottawa, and Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau of Montreal...