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Counsel. Leader of the defense counsel at the Decatur trial is shrewd, bald-browed Samuel S. Leibowitz of Manhattan. His fee is being paid by the International Labor Defense, Communist organization; but no Red is Counsel Leibowitz. One of his chief concerns last week was to forestall any provocative demonstration by his employers, who filtered into town in increasing numbers...
Twice last week British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey clapped his hat on his bald, aristocratic head and left his Moscow Embassy. First he went over to the office of Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov to demand the immediate release of four British engineers: W. H. Thornton, W. H. MacDonald, John Cushny, and one Gregory, still held in Soviet jails last week on charges of sabotage (TIME, March...
...Stille Cummings, 62, only as a stopgap, to have a full Cabinet slate at the inaugural. A Yaleman (1891), Mr. Cummings began his legal career in populous, wealthy Fairfield County, served three terms as Mayor of Stamford, today lives in Greenwich. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1919-20). Since then he has made unsuccessful attempts to get into the House and Senate from a dominantly Republican State. He was an early and ardent Roosevelt boomer. A good lawyer if not a great...
...goes to a President-maker. More than any other man, he sold Franklin Roosevelt to the U. S. just as he used to sell gypsum and now sells building materials, through Elks' Clubs, among Red Men, by mail, over the telephone and in back-slapping personal contacts. Big, bald, breezy Jim Farley steps into the Post
...witnesses talk to impress Michigan's white-crested Couzens or Pennsylvania's sad-faced Reed or Wisconsin's pompadoured La Follette. All these would soon be in an impotent Republican minority. The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped in his chair at Senator Smoot's left-Mississippi's Pat Harrison. After March 4, Senator Harrison will move into Senator Smoot's highbacked seat at the top of the table, become ruler of the committee that fixes the nation's taxes and tariffs...