Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected Governor two years ago. A good speaker, he traveled and talked often during the primary campaign. Only obvious flaw in his political make-up was that he dressed exceedingly well, wore a different suit each day with harmonizing shirts, socks and neckties, setting off his handsome blue eyes. Oldster Moses referred to him acidly as "Little Boy Blue." Governor Bridges retorted that if Mr. Moses liked he would blow his horn but would not be found sleeping under any haystacks...
...great Baldwin Locomotive Works Showman Brady sent a letter on behalf of "William A. Brady & Brady Enterprises," refusing assent to the re-organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe out common stockholders"; 2) if reorganization had been...
...sell this issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King's stamp decision wrong...
...Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later at Marseille (TIME...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...