Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then George F. Baker got his eye on Davison and induced him to become, at 35, his right-hand man, Vice President of the First National Bank. Then came the panic of 1917. Davison was one of the bankers whom J. P. Morgan rushed around to in the dark days. Next year he was made adviser to the National Monetary Commission. Then one day in the fall of 1908, J. P. Morgan called him into his library and announced that he was to become a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. During the War, President Wilson called upon...
...testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission on their proposed Nickel Plate merger, have repented of ever entering the railroad business, they at least give no sign of it. They are patient, courteous, frank. Counsel H. W. Anderson, representing the minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders, is infinitely inquisitive. Counsel Newton D. Baker for the Van Sweringens, continues to protest against a continued unlimited inquiry into the past of the present Nickel Plate. The Van Sweringens answer frankly all questions asked them. Meanwhile it is July in Washington...
...merger by the C. & O. stockholders as a "stock manipulation and a financing-rigging scheme." As to details, however, Mr. Anderson failed to specify. Just how these matters were relevant to the fairness of the Van Sweringen merger plan, he failed to state. Ex-Secretary of War Baker demanded that the scope of the inquiry in the future be limited. The I. C. C., impartial but sweltering, reserved its decision...
...Authors Harold Atteridge and Harry Wabstaff Gribble do not depend on the upholstery to make their lines agreeable; the art directing and music decidedly the most able that those penetrating students of public taste, the Messer Shubert, have ever paid for. There is, also, a funny man, one Phil Baker...
...Stannard Baker, author-editor, Litt.D...