Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open opponents of his bill were strong if not in numbers at least in conviction, in experience and ability. The opposition included all 16 Republicans in the Senate, from Youngster Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address* to the Senate on Feb. 22) to Oldster Borah, and they included such veterans as Hiram Johnson, Arthur Vandenberg and Gerald Nye. The Democrats aligned solidly with these included such gentlemen as Glass & Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas, Bailey of North Carolina, Wheeler of Montana, Clark of Missouri, Burke of Nebraska, George of Georgia, Van Nuys...
...Baptist, the human icicle and animated feather duster Chilly Charlie had become one of Washington's favorite dinner guests. He and Mrs. Hughes go out only on Saturday nights and are dated up months ahead.† Still not a gregarious man, he is a definitely affable and agreeable oldster who chuckles much in whiskers, and the twinkle in his eye is really there. On the public side he has come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage...
...Oldster Pauline Frederick as Empress Elizabeth and Oldster Dudley Digges as Franz Joseph went full critical praise and a welcome back to the stage from the films. Henry Hull and Margo, the lovers at Mayerling, split honors with Playwright Anderson for an historical episode bursting with strength and bravery, so true that it should have happened even...
...period will put his signature and the date on the slips before he passes them on. He will also pay a 2% transaction tax into the Townsend Test Fund at the local bank. Thus, if the $200 travels through 50 transactions during the 30-day period, a penurious oldster will have been provided with $200 worth of goods and services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting...
...knoll overlooking Springfield, Mass., one day last week gathered seven Episcopal bishops, their clergy and many a rich and cultivated worshiper. The grey-haired, 86-year-old retired Bishop of Massachusetts mounted the pulpit, preached on "The Quickening of the Spirit." Almost abruptly terminating his sermon, the oldster fixed his gaze upon a tall, younger man sitting at a table in the centre aisle. "My son!" said he, "my father used to say to me again and again, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' I have repeated these words for myself...