Word: veteran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easily missed would be Mrs. Jefferson Borden Harriman, seasoned veteran of conventions. Delegate Harriman bustled, conferred, entertained, all in the interests of the Brown Derby but with one eye on the features of Montana's rugged Walsh, onetime candidate. Did he frown, remembering earlier bustling, conferring, entertaining in his behalf? Did he smile, recalling that he had released his followers from political loyalty, if not from personal affection? Delegate Harriman speculated. In a dining-room high above Times Square, Manhattan, another friend lunched privately and importantly with his fellow princes of the press. Diminutive Louis Wiley, presiding over...
...take up trans-atlantic flying last summer by the ambition to show New Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth of Mrs. Frederick Guest (TIME, June 11), but Miss Boll's sponsor is Charles A. Levine, of uncertain reliability. Lady Lindy knows she wants...
Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...
Accordingly, Germany was represented on the Council, last week, by that veteran pre-War and post-War "career diplomat," Dr. von Schubert, now Assistant Foreign Minister. Came in behalf of France her reputedly richest citizen, M. Louis Loucheur, not long since Finance Minister. (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925). Just prior to leaving Paris last week, M. Loucheur accepted the post of Minister of Labor, replacing unlucky M. André Falliére, who lost his parliamentary seat in the recent French election (TIME, April...
...Cabinet provisionally assembled, last fortnight, under General John Metaxas (Royalist), was hastily supplanted, last week, by one more Coalition Government under veteran Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis...