Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry, M. Edmond Sommier of the refineries that bear his name. Also...
...chief continental rival, North German Lloyd's Herr Direktor Karl Stimming, is also very short, very forceful, but is bald and has the tiniest possible mustache. †Equivalent to board chairman...
William Cameron Forbes, bald, aristocratic Bostonian, has held two outstanding positions in Statecraft. He was Governor General of the Philippines, chief U. S. executive in the vast Pacific, under President Taft. He is now Ambassador to Japan, only U. S. Ambassador in all Asia...
Sponsor of the amendment was North Dakota's broad-shouldered, bald-headed Lynn Joseph Frazier, chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, who contended that Mr. Hagerman's duties duplicated those of the Indian superintendents, that his tribal councils were ineffective, that he had "pulled off a deal" in Navajo oil leases which disqualified him for "a job on the Government payroll...
Quiet, colorless, eminently righteous is the Chicago Evening Post. It boasts the best financial, society and art pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police...