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...many an oldster could recall the lusty history of the Anaconda Standard- conceived in anger, nurtured in strife and extravagance; could recall how, as the personal organ of the late famed copper tycoon Marcus Daly, the Standard stood at the turn of the century among the best edited dailies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anaconda's Ghost | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Trusty Hoover helpers who scampered sweltering around Paris day & night, popping in now upon Premier Laval, now upon Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and now upon "the Old Tomcat of the Quai D'Orsay," slumberous, feline Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, included notably a youngster and an oldster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...James Buchanan Duke passed to his rest. Famed as a "log-cabin milionaire, " hero of many a stirring success story, he was born and lived not far from the new Duke campus. Durham is full of Duke cousins and fresh memories of the State's great man. Many an oldster is left who knew the great man's father, Washington Duke. The rich story that is Duke is still well-preserved from its beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...have a government of the Left. The previous cabinet, that of youngster Andre Tardieu who fell two weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 15), was of the Right. Two other statesmen, Louis Barthou (Right) and Pierre Laval (Independent), tried and failed to form cabinets. It was definitely the turn of Left Oldster Theodore Steeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Steeg's Big Five | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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