Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald-browed beagle baying on the trail of income tax evaders was Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury announced that henceforth all important cases brought before the Board of Tax Appeals would be inspected by him personally. From now on, he continued, the Treasury would go to law to recover tax deficiencies instead of accepting compromises out of court...
...appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left the 38-page report before the public and the public prosecutors. Some findings of the committee: Bald, stocky, little (4 ft. 6 in.) Major J. Divine (or Morgan J. Divine) was supposedly born George Baker somewhere in the South, will reveal nothing of his life prior to a dozen years ago when he settled in Sayville, L. I. First running a bona fide employment bureau, he soon...
...find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic," ended up by saying "I must take a little more time to make up my mind." Last week, Judge Woolsey...
Looking up from the paper he was reading in the executives' washroom of his McGraw-Hill building in Manhattan, bald, white-bearded James Herbert McGraw, 72, head of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., saw two bandits, faces masked by towels, levelling pistols at his head & heart. "Hello," said he calmly. Abruptly he snatched the towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver...
...question was first formulated in the annual convention of the Amateur Athletic Union at Pittsburgh, immediately preceding the Olympic meeting. There bald, white-fringed Gustavus Town Kirby took the floor. He recalled the meeting of the International Olympic Committee last June at Vienna, where German delegates promised not to exclude Jews from their teams. Since then, said Mr. Kirby, Jews had not only been barred from teams but by various Nazi rules had even been prevented from training. He offered a resolution calling upon the American Olympic Association to refuse to send a U. S. team to Berlin "unless...