Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to the ways of city hoodlums, Attorney General Bennett likes to remind people that he was born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted...
Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian descent and could understand Kassay's native Magyar. He, too, had "certain ideas" about this business of the Navy's new dirigible, Akron, largest in the world, which they and hundreds of others were building. High on the catwalks, just under the dome of the dock (which is so enormous that rainfall sometimes occurs inside), was an excellent place to talk privately while innumerable rivets were...
...Helen Wills Moody, generally acknowledged to be the greatest woman amateur in the world, was also dropped because, married, she preferred domestic life to playing in major U. S. tournaments last summer. The committee protested that on her they had "insufficient data." New No. 1 is John Hope Doeg, blond, pug-faced lefthander who won the national singles and would have been No. 1 even if Tilden had stayed amateur. The new ranking...
...Republicans were specially anxious for an answer. So to the White House was summoned big, blond Theodore Clifford Wallen, Washington correspondent of the Herald Tribune. The President talked to Correspondent Wallen privately. Next day the Herald Tribune carried a hesitant story to the effect that the President had "turned thumbs down only on the specific plan of revision suggested by the Commission," that he was still open-minded on other proposals. The White House endeavor to make President Hoover seem less Dry was carried further when Secretary Walter Newton assembled newsmen and solemnly explained?anonymously?that the President had been...
Planner Anderson. Most constructive was Commissioner Anderson, big. blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...