Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carl Milles is 56, short, broad-shouldered, stocky, clean shaven. He has brown hair and big hands. With his big hands he likes to do sculpture of heroic size. He has prospered; his house is one of Sweden's showplaces. His wife is an Austrian who paints. They like to travel, particularly in the U. S. where they have many a friend and admirer. He teaches part of the year at Stockholm's Royal Akademie, goes to see Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf with whom he is intimate...
...MacDonald Government's party organ the Daily Herald. Paradoxically this super-scarehead was a friendly gesture. Silver-haired, silver-tongued Scot MacDonald was welcoming that day the first German Chancellor to set foot in England since the War: Dr. Heinrich Brüning, a young clean shaven statesman of but 46, a Catholic of stern fiber who won the Iron Cross fighting für Kaiser und für Vaterland...
...European Commission. "We can only express the hope that he may be long with us to guide us, lead us, advise and inspire us." At this roar from the British Lion, the other animals in the League Ark took their cue, applauded. Square Head? Dr. Julius Curtius, smooth-shaven German Foreign Minister -the man whose policy of Austro-German Zollverein (customs union) dealt such a blow to M. Briand's presidential chances -conferred privately with Chairman Briand before the Commission...
...Mendelssohn. The House of Rothschild is not so great in Germany today as the House of Mendelssohn. Bankers to the House of Romanov up to 1914, Mendelssohn & Co. suffered temporary eclipse when Germany declared war on Russia, later emerged more potent than before. Sixty-five years old, tall, clean-shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind...
...Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits however were $8,626,000 against...