Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Chicago that same day an oldster from the other branch of the Service was reviving a part of its past which the Army would like to forget. In 1897 Captain Oberlin Montgomery Carter of the Corps of Engineers was on the upswing of what promised to be an exceptionally brilliant career. Graduated from West Point with one of the most brilliant records in Academy history, he had eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business...
Three factors were responsible for his conviction. Oldster Carter told the Senator. One was his Savannah successor's jealousy of his social success. Another was the fact that he had favored construction of a canal through Panama, thus incurring the wrath of New York's onetime Senator Warner Miller, head of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. Lastly, said he, the late, great Republican Boss Mark Hanna had persuaded President McKinley that if he failed to approve Carter's conviction he would, in the coming election, lose Ohio and the Presidency to Admiral Dewey...
...began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund par. The Hoover health had been restored solely by short morning walks near his Palo Alto home...
Last week Oldster Spearman was in Ann Arbor, Mich, to tell the American Psychological Association convention about a basic mind entity called...
...statesman. Not until he took up investigations as a hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...