Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibbs McAdoo-who served with him under Woodrow Wilson-was last week snowed under by more than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination...
...Port Orford all stirred up last week was a 70-year-old Oregon miner named Robert Harrison. Miner Harrison asserts that he found the meteorite as a boy of 14, when he was staking out a nickel claim in the mountains with his father. Oldster Harrison also declares that he came upon the meteorite again in 1900, that he still remembers exactly where it is. Slowed up two years ago by an injury. Miner Harrison was feeling spry enough last week to figure on going after the lost meteorite...
...Washington, D. C., 82-year-old George Boarman became the father of his 26th child, by his third wife, 21. Oldster Boarman's first 25 children were by his first wife. He met the present Mrs. Boarman last year when he worked on her father's farm. Proud of his "crackerjack" record, he explained: "I stand in well with the Lord...
...Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support of his complaints that the other directors shoved him around', deceived him, the public and the President, wasted TVA money, based yardstick rates on spurious or nonexistent cost calculations. But if Oldster Arthur Morgan would cut no capers to supply entertainment, loud Representative Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican from Ironton, Ohio, made up for the deficiency...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...