Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decidedly persona non grata to Victor Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected. "All reports from Rockland...
...Chicago Post and Herald & Examiner, Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman at the time of the War, learned while overseas that he had been made sales manager of the bank's investment department. Stocky, round-faced, brown-eyed, bald, Banker Hall lives in swank Winnetka, golfs...
...Joseph Ruddy is a huge, bald, splotchy man, the greatest water poloist in history, an Olympic swimmer, master of 26 sports, rescuer of some 150 lives, winner of a Congressional Medal for Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record...
...Back, bald Jack Blackburn, 52-year-old onetime lightweight boxer who taught Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis how to fight, set out one evening last week to invest some of his earnings in Chicago Black Belt real estate. When the youthful owner of a house would not let him inspect the premises. Boxer Blackburn, who once did five years for killing a man, started a fight. Bested, he withdrew, returned with three friends, began blazing away with pistols at his opponent. Caught in the cross fire were a 9-year-old pickaninny, a blackamoor of 69, who subsequently died. Boxer Blackburn...
...Bald, cantankerous Rudolph E. Leppert is not only art editor of The Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...