Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three famed oldsters in U.S. industry stepped aside last week for younger men: Big Bill Jeffers, whose strong back and sharp mind have run the Union Pacific Railroad for eight years, will retire from the presidency Feb. 1 at the age of 70, the road's age limit. He will continue as a director, but plans to take things easy in his new home, complete with swimming pool, in Los Angeles. Into his big shoes will step Executive Vice President George F. Ashby, 60, who went to work for U.P. in the engineering department 34 years ago. Like most...
...Appointed a fact-finding board to study the U.A.W. strike against General Motors. The appointees: North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Walter P. Tracy, WLB Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison, Kansas State College President Milton Eisenhower (younger brother of General Ike). ¶ Appointed a six-man delegation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor...
...open secret grapevined through the vast reaches of the Hearst empire. From Los Angeles to Manhattan, in deeply carpeted offices and in the roaring, greasy basement pressrooms, Hearstlings heard the word and passed it along: the gaudy old American Weekly had a new and younger publisher; William Randolph Hearst Jr. had a new and bigger...
Young Bill has played it safe & sane since his teens. In those younger days he was a lank kid with a toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
Basically, said Writer Pattee, Latin America has two types of Catholicism: 1) "the black dress and the mantilla"-the "sentimental brand practiced in large measure by pious older ladies" and on Sundays by "the younger women, dressed more to please the younger men than God"; 2) the intellectual-the brand practiced by a minority aware of "the full significance of Catholicism as an 'ideology.' " In almost every Latin American land but Mexico, he concluded, the masses have "committed [virtual] apostasy...