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When the vote was taken, the oldsters of the Senate rallied affectionately around Oldster Fletcher. Party lines were split. The final count: For Fletcher, 34; Against the Canal, 39. A motion was made to reconsider the vote. While it was pending, those who voted against the canal received boxes of fine crisp celery from, South Florida. Some who voted for it received telegrams from a Florida hotel man inviting them to be his guests "at any time while in Florida." Closer still was the second vote: 36-to-35. Heartsick Senator Fletcher saw his hopes defeated unless President Roosevelt decided...
Actually Mr. Morgan was doing no more than demonstrating how a male oldster can enjoy his leisure, for the Committee did not require his personal reappearance. He attended that session only because, as he said: "These things are important to me. I don't know so much about the details as the others, but I am responsible. Besides, I didn't want to miss the party...
...Heroic Oldster...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr., 96, was taking his longest automobile ride of the season along Florida's Daytona Beach last fortnight when he spied one Al Garb, a beach photographer who took his picture six years ago. Ordering his big maroon limousine to stop, Oldster Rockefeller peered out, asked Al Garb how much money he had made from the photograph. Al Garb chirped a figure. Cackling with delight, Oldster Rockefeller complimented him on his industry, posed for another photograph (see cut) with which last week Cameraman Garb made more money...
Cattle-road was Bellevue & Cascade of Iowa which operated, intermittently, 35.7 miles of track. Bellevue & Cascade had only one locomotive, a 50-year-oldster whose axle broke in 1934. Since that accident, claimed angry farmers, the train jumped the track so often and killed so many cattle that no farmer would ship livestock on it. The Interstate Commerce Commission gave permission for the mileage to be abandoned...