Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...
Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...
...Oldster Carter explained his fortune as the gift of his rich father-in-law, explained the fact that his father-in-law had refused to testify at his trial and fled to Europe by suggesting that that relative might have been in cahoots with the grafting contractors. "I have tried for years," he concluded sadly, "to get a hearing before all the wit nesses died, as they now have." The official record of Carter's case occupies 55,000 pages in the archives of the Departments of War and Justice. Senator Duffy reserved decision...
...approaching Presidential campaign brought Invalid Howe back briefly into the news when an Associated Pressman went to his hospital bed, interviewed him for the first time since he fell ill. Perched on an elbow, his pent-up thoughts tumbling out in a staccato jumble, the gnarled, gnome-like little oldster crackled...
Dialed in for gold at SEC headquarters, Mr. Haas approached a table on which were five covered boxes. Four contained assorted fruits & vegetables. One contained gold. Holding his indicator in his right hand, the grey-haired oldster moved it along over the line of boxes until it reached a box at which it began to vibrate vigorously. The box was opened. It contained an apple...