Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired patriarch of the U. S. Supreme Court, found that Federal economy measures have reduced his retirement pay from $20,000 to $10,000 a year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought...
...libels of four years ago. The Governor recently [1930] insured his life for $500,000 with the Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation as the beneficiary. . . . His lameness which is steadily getting better has no more effect on his general condition than if he had a glass eye or was prematurely bald. ... If he were a weakling in any respect he could not have gone through two gruelling campaigns for the Governorship of New York. . . Governor Roosevelt might be handicapped in a footrace but in no other way need he fear comparison with his adversary...
...Seipel, 56, former Chancellor of Austria; of diabetes, tuberculosis and pneumonia; in a monastery at Pernitz, Austria. A professor of moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine craft the bald, beak-nosed cleric put the Christian Socialists in command of the Austrian Republic, fortified his party rule with the Heimwehr (Home Guard). Austria was bankrupt. Chancellor Seipel visited in turn all the European capitals, making the nations believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria...
...House, President von Hindenburg's comfortable, unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
Headquarters. Everett Sanders, new chairman of the National Committee, leased 90 rooms on the sixth floor of the Palmer House in Chicago as the party's main headquarters. Henry Justin Allen, bald and beaked, was installed as master of the mimeograph. Ray Benjamin, the President's quiet California friend, opened an office where he could take and make White House telephone calls undisturbed...