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Reginald McKenna is the bald, brainy chairman of the Midland, largest bank in the world. Three years ago he induced Britain's leading bankers, traditionally free traders, to reverse themselves sensationally and come out for the building of tariff walls around the Empire (TIME, July 14, 1930), which have since been built. Five weeks before President Roosevelt's inauguration Mr. McKenna asked: "Is it possible to raise our internal price level? Particularly can we do so by monetary management? ... I confess the thought of inflation, so long as it is controlled inflation, does not alarm...
...particular interest was judicial reform. He affects 19th Century attire and speech, wears old-fashioned stiff collars, voluminous cravats, striped trousers, heavy black coats. His round, Pickwickian cheeks dimple with smiles and he trains his frizzy grey hair to stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald head. But his tongue is his greatest member. Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years ago he reduced 7,000 Czechoslovakians to tears. On the platform he grows warmly evangelical about anything from the psychology of prison reform to the beauties of rare glass. A good though less...
...Bald, scholarly Eugene Meyer, longtime managing director of War Finance Corp., lately the distinguished Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, had a fight last week in Washington with a red-haired lady. The fight was over Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley and Dick Tracy. The lady was Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, vivacious editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald. Banker Meyer did not fight in person, but as publisher of the Washington Post which he bought at auction last month (TIME. June...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
...Yorkers who frequent expensive speakeasies, Dwight Fiske has long been a familiar personality. Lean, hatchet-faced, with hands like carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom...