Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy. The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War was hardly four hours old before the Navy began to feel its influence. Responsive (by prearrangement) to Premier MacDonald's announcement of a reduction in the British naval building program, of British acceptance of thoroughgoing naval parity with the U. S., President Hoover moved to retard the construction of three 10,000-ton cruisers. He publicly explained: cruisers henceforth are not to compete in armament as potential opponents but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. . . . Generally speaking the British cruiser strength considerably exceeds the American strength...
That year at Pompton Plains, N. J., was born John Richard Voorhis, scion of an old Dutch family. At the age of one he was taken to Manhattan, to the village that was Greenwich Village. He sat on his great-grandfather's knee, heard eyewitness stories of the Revolution. He became a carpenter, built a mahogany stairway for Citizen A. T. Stewart's store (now Wanamakers...
...City Board of Elections, Grand Sachem of the Society of St. Tammany, celebrated his 100th birthday. It was a three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in 1852, Mr. Voorhis fought William Marcy Tweed and the "Old Tammany," received his first office, Commissioner of Excise, in 1873 under the reform administration of Mayor Havemeyer. He was long the city's Police Commissioner. Continuously in public service since, his jobs have always been appointive...
...himself a special vat of extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors...
...walking papers by the since-fallen Conservative Government two Junes ago (TIME, June 12, 1927). As M. Rosengolz hurried into Victoria Station to catch his boat train, he was cheered by a delegation of British Laborites led by jovial Arthur Henderson, then Minister of State for Home Affairs. "Hullo, old fellow!" boomed Mr. Henderson, and warmly wrung the parting Comrade's hand...