Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...last week a bald paunchy septuagenarian marched briskly out of the Treasury Department and into a banquet spread for him by his friends at Washington's Hotel Carlton. That march and meal ended the 49-year-long government career of the man whose name is carved on the cornerstones of more post offices, customs houses, federal court houses and office buildings than that of any other U. S. citizen...
...from London. Boston's crusty, septuagenarian Banker Frederick Henry Prince seldom goes to London. Abroad, he transacts his British business by telephone from Paris. Three weeks ago the largest stockholder of Armour & Co. jiggled the telephone in his Paris home, called for the London office of Robert Hervey Cabell, European manager of that famed old packing company. Both had just received news of the death of Armour's President Thomas George Lee in Chicago (TIME...
Kelly. Year and a half ago an unconscionable assassin deprived Chicago of its Democratic Mayor Anton Cermak. Chicago's two Democratic Bosses, Septuagenarian Patrick A. Nash, and State's Attorney Thomas Courtney, picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which...
Defense tactics were to deny none of the overt acts charged, to let Septuagenarian Insull take full responsibility. BUT the defense was also out to show that the acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment...