Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore, last week, The Baltimore Post, demurred to its indictment for illegal practice in publishing tax figures. Whilom Secretary of War Newton D. Baker went from his Cleveland law offices to join with W. Calvin Chestnut, Baltimore Attorney, in arguing that "to publish" (language of the Revenue Act of 1924) means "freely to print and widely to circulate," that to deny this freedom is to violate Amendment I of the Constitution...
...Manhattan, last week, counsel for the New York Herald-Tribune employed much the same arguments used by Mr. Baker and his colleague, to win acquittal for their clients before Judge John C. Knox and a Federal Grand Jury. Whereupon the prosecution (i. e., the Government), in order finally to test the law, had the Herald-Tribune reindicted, using as grounds the tax figures of individuals other than those named in the first indictment. The re-indictment was quashed perfunctorily by Judge Knox, as the prosecution intended it should be; and the Government was free to appeal this second case...
...that decorous dusk; Schattenstein's picture of Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry C. Cushing III), oval face, narrow eyes, pursed sleepy mouth; Halmi's portrait of Miss Constance Mc-Cann, a slim girl with red hair; Alfred Munnings' restrained, academical paintings of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr., Mr. Sidney Fish. There was an early Sargent; an early Augustus John...
...curious and questionable principle upon which the authorities at Harvard denied Professor Baker adequate equipment, even forbade him to raise an endowment fund by outside subscription. As to library and laboratory, their liberality knows no bound short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. Doctorates in philosophy are awarded for theses on the digamma in Anglo-Saxon or on the iota subscript in Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing...
...dedication is very properly made to Mr. George F. Baker, who has insured the future of the School by his gift of last spring--"Through his generosity and foresight he has given the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration increasing opportunity for training men to a greater understanding of the purpose of business and a fuller appreciation of business integrity...