Word: baldish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baldish, pug-faced "Ugly" Barratt has been chief of the R. A. F. in France since last January, when, as a sop to Army chiefs who demanded control of the air arm, the Air Ministry picked him as the best expert on Army cooperation problems. Under him are two commands, Army Cooperation and the Advance Striking Force. One cooperates with the British Expeditionary Force, the other with the French Air Force...
...Gave baldish, hard-working Lewis Compton of Metuchen, N. J. a job which the President and three other Roosevelts have held. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt chose Mr. Compton at the insistence of the Navy high command and Secretary Charles Edison. Messrs. Edison and Compton came out of New Jersey together to serve with early New Deal agencies, went to the Navy Department together when Mr. Edison became Assistant Secretary in 1937. When & if Charles Edison resigns to run for Governor of New Jersey, they will presumably go out together. Reason: in the team of Edison & Compton...
This was Ross Mclntire, White House doctor, a small, baldish, informal man who pays no attention to the heavy titles and gold braid-Rear Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy-conferred on him by a grateful President. After nearly seven years of checking up on Mr. Roosevelt's health, Admiral Mclntire last week told the President he could let himself go. This meant that Mr. Roosevelt could have that second dish of ice cream he often craves...