Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little before noon one day early this week Chief Justice Hughes led a bald, bespectacled man of 53 into the sanctity of the Justices' robing room in the new Supreme Court Building. A few days before the Senate had confirmed President Roosevelt's second Supreme Court appointment -even more perfunctorily than in the case of Hugo Black. The Chief Justice administered the Constitutional oath to Stanley Reed, who then marched into the courtroom in his brand-new black robe to take his place as the 77th Justice to sit on the high bench, succeeding Associate Justice Sutherland. Before...
National has cost the U. S. $20,000,000. When it was organized in 1929 by a bald Kansas farmer named Clarence Huff its capital-about $1,000,000-was entirely private. But various Government farm agencies immediately began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...
...great many of them were already objecting to other things, including the expense of national marketing. Foremost among the members who thought that Farmers National should be brought to an end was William Horn, a farmer from Ohio who was just as bald as Clarence Huff. Last year Farmer Horn quietly replaced Farmer Huff as president. And last September Farmers National had the bad luck to be short in the market when there was a squeeze in corn (TIME, Oct. 4). Farmers National paid through the nose to cover its short commitments. So the decision of President Horn...
...novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene and violent, free in her manner but irreproachable in her conduct, she was indolent, simple, with...
...Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing, Cereal Manufacturer W. K. Kellogg, Author Paul de Kruif-have bought 84 complete sets of Brasher (874 pictures of 1,200 species and subspecies). Audubon, during his lifetime, had sold...