Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which I took part. Upon the suggestion of General Bliss, who was present, General Pershing was selected as commander of the Punitive Expedition. In making this suggestion General Bliss pointed out briefly how Pershing was the logical man as he was on the ground, knew the situation and was thoroughly competent...
Capt. C. S. Baker, U. S. Navy, defended intervention in the Caribbean on the ground that the tropical climate has degenerated the natives...
Members-Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, skipper; Commodore William Vincent Astor, George Fisher Baker Jr., Commodore Floyd Leslie Carlisle, Ogden Livingston Mills, E. Walter Clark (owner of Resolute), George Whitney...
...swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
...Macfadden's aversion is birth control, Publisher George Horace Lorimer's are publicity and social functions. Publisher William Randolph Hearst's is England. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's are people who will not give him his own way. And a pet aversion of Publisher George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times rules forbid mentioning or picturing rats, corpses. Journalists wonder: How would the Times report the news if President...