Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, Miss Ruutz-Rees (Headmistress of an exclusive Seminary-for-young-ladies in Connecticut) and Newton D. Baker led the Mississippian to the Chair amid cheers...
Mississippi yielded to Ohio, and Newton D. Baker came forward to nominate, or rather to renominate, James M. Cox. He spoke mostly about Wilson and the League of Nations, and carried the audience with him in his demand for a return to "Wilson principles." When he had done, Ohio stood on its chairs and demonstrated, with the aid of Glee Clubs, for a quarter of an hour...
Next, Newton D. Baker rose and offered an amendment to the League of Nations plank, which proposed immediate entry into the League without a referendum, as proposed in the majority report...
Once more Mr. Baker took the floor to speak for the ideals of Wilson. He had enthusiasm and force, and with real oratory swayed the Convention: "There is no subject on this earth, apart from my relations to my God and my duty to my family, which compares even remotely (with me) with the League of Nations...
Professor George P. Baker '87, professor of dramatic literature and director of the 47 Workshop will not be in the University next year, it became known yesterday. He has received a leave of absence, and will spend the summer at the University of California and the winter abroad...