Word: sexagenarian
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...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
...Sexagenarian Herrick lay sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...
...business turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk would cost...
...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...