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...such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...They were shot," said officials at first, then "They were beheaded." Accustomed to such bare-faced lies, the newshawks patiently pecked for details, finally satisfied themselves that an axing had occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck...
...support this bald statement, its makers last week had a notable case, citing chapter and verse from Administration acts...
...grains of gold. All five creditors sue in common cause declaring that their contracts call for repayment "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." Each insists that Congress has arbitrarily interfered with contractual rights and that the whole scheme is but a bald proposal to relieve debtors at the expense of creditors, and as such amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law. The only solid line of defense for the Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements...
...very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...