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Last week the House of Representatives, hunting "that fellow behind the tree." took its orders from a tall, lanky North Carolina farmer, bald as a buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition...
...Taylor, the handsome Quaker whose office on the 17th floor is labeled "Chairman of the Finance Committee." They all know "Big Jim"? James Augustine Farrell?who for 20 years has occupied the 18th floor office labeled "President." And they all know "Mr. Filbert," a keen-eyed man whose bald, round head is said to contain all the Corporation's complex statistics and who was recently elevated to vice chairman of the finance committee...
...having grown tired of writing about Japanese Admirals. The emotions of the New York Times correspondent when General Uyeda arrived to take over all Japanese land operations last week were notable. "General Uyeda," cabled the correspondent, "is an extremely attractive personality. He is of medium height, is slender, nearly bald and speaks no English. Under a straggling, iron grey mustache, he Hashes frequent smiles, revealing teeth rimmed with gold...
...Francisco needs either one patron like William Andrews Clark Jr. who supports the Los Angeles Philharmonic or the unified backing of all the city's music enthusiasts. For years petty cliques have hindered the development of the San Francisco orchestra. In 1915 when bald, bearded Alfred Hertz went there to conduct, friends of social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews...
...Stout, bald, genial Newshawk Lewis is known throughout Berkshire Country. He keeps no working hours, wants no diversion other than traveling about, gathering homely little items for his paper, chatting about his favorite oldtime news stories. Unmarried, Reporter Lewis lives alone in a lodging house. That, says he, is how he amassed $20,000: "I'm thrifty, and you can live in Lenox for $4 a week...