Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rand Jr., wealthy president of Remington Rand Inc., late one evening, marched a grim and agitated agent of the Massachusetts State Income Tax Department. The agent seized 75-year-old James Henry Rand Sr. retired maker of card-index systems, hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next...
...dignity's sake the President last fortnight laid a ban on candid camera portraits of himself (TIME, May 13). For time's sake he followed up that order last week with an edict against further portraits in oil. In Washington, Nicolas Richard Brewer, 77-year-oldster who painted the President few months ago, observed: ''The President is a very excellent subject if he behaves himself. The trouble is he jumps around too much...
...watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th birthday party. It was a special salute to him, and a farewell. He had passed his company's age limit and, willynilly, was retired...
...intelligent people could be as wise before the fact as after it, few of them would be fooled into war hysteria. Many an intelligent oldster now feels less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe...
...handsome white-haired oldster was hailed for what he is: a grand old man of music, whose record has been rich, whose friends have been many, whose position in the limelight has never once dimmed since he slipped into his father's big boots a half century ago. For his jubilee performance he chose to conduct excerpts from Fidelio and from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch...