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...Briggs strike, one of the Depression's most ominous threats, the U. S. Department of Labor sent its Field Commissioner Robert M. Pilkington, 58, onetime superintendent of an Indiana iron foundry and of the Labor Department's employment service. He is a quiet, even-tempered, slightly bald man who likes to be with his family. In order to get back to Indiana where they were living he became a labor conciliator in 1926. He has mediated several Indiana cinema theatre strikes, the Mishawaka, Ind. Rubber Goods factory strike...
...with Sam Katz in 1917. He had three brothers in B. & K. with him, one of whom, John, was elected last week to succeed him as secretary-treasurer. One brother is dead; one left the show business to become a Christian Science reader. Barney Balaban is 46, bald, quiet, reserved, able. He rides horseback nearly every morning. In the silent picture days it was he who thought of having orchestra scores to fit the picture's moods...
...other feature, "Little Orphan Annie," the ordinarily hard-to-bear Mitzi Green is absolutely insufferable. Those who follow the comic strip assidously will be grievously disappointed to see Sandy a German shepherd and Daddy Warbucks an insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee...
...invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling Brother Irving Moss as president. New Orleans, where race is viewed frankly, chuckled: "Watch what happens now! The Jews have got their hooks in the Dagoes...
Abruptly last week all South Africa was startled by the reentrance of huge, lumbering, bald-headed-Judge Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos into Union politics on the issue of the gold standard. Like Governor Roosevelt, Judge Roos has triumphed over an affliction of the legs, dating in his case from a motorcycle accident. Recently he resigned from South Africa's Federal bench. Last week, supported by friends who helped him in & out of motor cars and up to platforms. Judge Roos began a campaign to split the Nationalist Party of himself and Premier Hertzog. Appealing to South African farmers...