Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When squat, bald, hook-nosed Henry Justis Allen, onetime barber, was Governor of Kansas, Clyde M. Reed was his secretary. Now Mr. Reed is Governor of Kansas. Last week he announced that he would appoint Mr. Allen to the Kansas seat in the U. S. Senate, vacated by Vice- President Curtis. Once publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Mr. Allen, now 60, directed Hoover campaign publicity...
...Loft Sr. is cruising in the Mediterranean) and elect as two of the eleven directors Mr. Otis Emerson Dunham, president of Page & Shaw, Inc., and Mr. Edward T. Williams, vice president of Page & Shaw. At a stockholders' meeting last week (reminiscent of the late Rockefeller-Stewart and Childs-Barber controversies) the Page & Shaw interests rounded up an apparent majority of the company's stock. But President Loft challenged so many of the Page & Shaw proxies that the meeting was adjourned with no decisive action...
...many a year now have fashions been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
Also ousted last week was William Childs & Wife & Family from management of the 125-restaurant chain founded by two brothers Childs. To control came William A. Barber with perhaps the backing of certain Delaware du Ponts. On the new Childs directorate are Hollyday S. Meeds Jr., son-in-law of T. Coleman du Pont and Lucius M. Boomer, with whose hotel interests the du Ponts are said to be connected. So little has the Childs Co. remained the child of Childs, that sentimental Brother William appeared to own less than 3% of its stock. Nevertheless he said, on quitting: "This...
Guiseppe (Dry.) Martini, head barber at the Union, was discussing the decorations there with an assistant when the CRIME reporter entered his "sanetum", "Hey, Choe! Heavy cool-eedge!" he remarked succinctly to his satellite. "Ya, deesa nice day. Shearsa clippas," was his only other comment...