Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the majority report of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presented to the Senate the day after Jack Garner departed. That coincidence lent color to reports that the reason the President had been willing to excuse Oldster Garner from duty, was that the Vice President had grown more and more to side with those "free representatives" who want to kick over New Deal traces...
...instance, open to the accusation of heresy for having grinned . . . at your recent reference to "that occasionally tedious oldster" [TIME, May 10] ? I hardly think so. And the bristling broadside of "protests...
...full professors and one half-time visiting professor who will lecture on the Foundation, Mr. Kellogg stipulated that "the Pact of Paris is frankly accepted as embodying the basic principle in accordance with which the relations of all nations must ultimately be organized." The Foundation, completely budgeted by cautious Oldster Kellogg, also provides for six scholarships, two to send Carleton students abroad, four to bring foreign students to Carleton...
...night last week 66-year-old S. Allen Norton, who was Mount Hermon's cashier at the time of Headmaster Speer's death and who retired to nearby Greenfield last August, went to see the police. In a state of high agitation Oldster Norton related that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...