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Pennsylvania. Big unanswered question about the race for Governor was: Would bald, suave, ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt be a Democratic candidate? Bullitt said neither yes nor no. Democratic Senator Joseph F. Guffey, whose machine is hard-boiled, was saying plenty: he wants no silk stockings in the race...
...country had ever known. The call was for men for war factories, for the farms, for the services. The U.S. had registered all its men from the ages of 20 to 44; now it prepared to list the oldsters. Franklin Roosevelt announced that on April 27 the grey, the bald and the stooped, 45 to 64, would be registered, to be called where needed in nonmilitary war duties...
...card for the President's box. "All the lovely friends of the Ministers coaxed to be given cards to it." Several of the statesmen had a signal system to let their lady friends know when it was time to go. Minister Loucheur passed his hand over his bald head three times. Minister Daladier blew his nose furiously five or six times. Deputy Ybarnégaray, later Minister for Youth & Family in the Vichy Government, boldly waved a sheet of paper. "Oh, those gentlemen," said Head Usher Bouchonnet. who had the worldliness of a hotel clerk. "Madame Tabouis...
Died. Robert Bosch, 80, bald, bearded German magneto king; in Stuttgart. A farmer's son, he developed a small electrical business in a backyard shop in Stuttgart into a $1,000,000 industry, based chiefly on the world-famed Bosch high-tension magneto, the Bosch auto horn, the Bosch lamp...
...There were still other sour voices in the choir-loft, bickerings among the elders. There were few new faces in WPB; most of them had come right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used...