Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-six years on the Court is a long time, longer than that of any other present Justice but not so long as the 45 years that John T. Suter, A. P. newshawk, has been covering the Supreme Court. Next morning Oldster Van Devanter called up Oldster Suter, got him out of a sickbed, asked him to come over. Mr. Van Devanter then took up his composition, prefixed it with "My dear Mr. President," appended "I have the honor to remain very respectfully yours," called a messenger, and dispatched it to the White House. When Mr. Suter arrived the Justice...
...young Lawyer Borah went to Idaho, young Lawyer Van Devanter, just across the border in Wyoming, had already retired as chief justice of the State supreme court and was about to become chairman of the Republican State Committee. Today, Borah occupies apartment 77 at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue and Oldster Van Devanter occupies apartment 47, three floors below. When they meet in the elevator, they say "Hello Bill" and "Hello Willis...
...John D. Rockefeller, the sinister master of old Standard Oil, has long since been replaced in the public mind by John D. Rockefeller, the gentle oldster who gave away more money than any man who ever lived. For that astonishing handspring in public opinion, John Rockefeller could thank in large measure the late famed Ivy Ledbetter Lee, his longtime pressagent...
That occasionally tedious oldster, Jehovah of the Old Testament, appears nowhere to greater advantage than in the Book of Job. Eloquent, thunderous, awesome, He speaks to Job from a whirlwind, reproves the moody, theatrical Jew in some of the most majestic questions ever posed. Out of many a U. S. radio two Sundays ago issued sounds of a wind machine and the voice of an actor impersonating God: Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? . . . Wilt thou disannul my judgment, Job? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? . . . Hast thou an arm like God, Job? Canst...
...word of the Thomasites' plight reached the U. S. through a letter written to School & Society by one of their number, Gilbert Perez of the Bureau of Education at Manila. After denouncing both the Philippine and the U. S. Governments for "an amazing piece of neglect and ingratitude," Oldster Perez concluded with a poem on The Thomasites. Excerpts...