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...ringing doorbells and making speeches for the unsuccessful Senatorial campaign of his discoverer, bald George Zerdin Medalie, when Candidate Roosevelt made his Commonwealth Club address that has since provided Tom Dewey (and the Republican Party) with the text of its sermon for 1940. When he ran against Lehman for Governor, he was up against an opponent faultlessly liberal, mellowed, with no disquieting ambitions. Nevertheless Dewey got in his say on housing, a balanced budget, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and told graphic stories of racket-busting in the process...
Although bomb detonations have shattered some windows in his villa, 20 miles from Helsinki, bald, hulking, 74-year-old Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, the Finns' "national treasure," stubbornly refused to leave. Two weeks after the Russo-Finnish war began he left his Helsinki flat for the country. Said friends: "It was the noise [of daily bombings] that drove him out. He has little fear, but the noise was just too unmusical...
...began preparing for the hearings late in 1938 when SEC Chairman Bill Douglas summoned his Columbia University schoolmate (and brother in Beta Theta Pi) Ernest J. Howe, started him on a preliminary survey of U. S. life insurance. Bald Ernest Howe had had some eight years' investment-buying experience in Wall Street (with Blyth & Co., Inc. and Lehman Bros.), knew as well as any other wide-awake economist what tremendous capital reservoirs the insurance companies have become as holders of mortgages on the U. S., its States and municipalities and on U. S. farms and business...
...other" Roosevelts, Archibald, son of Archibald, son of President Theodore, sat by. The delegates (here a pretty girl who could afford a fox collar, there an unemployed Italian in a sweater, Negroes next to white friends, students, sharecroppers, a few "youths" with bald or greying heads) were dog-tired. All day they had seen sights, visited Congressmen, argued, walked up & down with rhyming placards: "Heed the Voice of 21,000,000: Keep the C. C. C. Civilian!" "Scholarships not Battleships!" "Dies is FLIP-PITY about Civil LIBERTY...
Alexander Cincar-Markovitch, Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister, was host. Bald, imperturbable, M. Cincar-Markovitch is a professional diplomat formerly stationed at Berlin and Rome. He strives for "faithful collaboration with Germany" and for "greater friendship" with Italy, at the same time keeping his wires open to Paris and London. Of all the Balkans, his is the country most nearly neutral...