Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern Sakhalin is sold to Japan, Sinclair's much-discussed oil concession there will of course be worthless. The whole episode would furnish a worthy theme for a novel by Oppenheim. Sinclair's attempted penetration of the Russian oil fields follows the development project undertaken in the Baker petroleum district by the Barnsdall Corporation, another American company...
...Cobb, Detroit's famed baseball player: "In a game against the Philadelphia Athletics I exchanged blows with Third Baseman Riconda, of the opposing team, because he blocked my path as I slid into the base. Thirteen years ago, when another Philadelphia third baseman-' Home Run ' Baker-at-tempted similar tactics with me, I slid into him and ' spiked ' him-and there arose a great scandal...
...under which President Wilson and he had decided that the German patents should be sold: " It was the darkest hour of the War. . . . It was about the time that General Haig had said that Great Britain was fighting with its back to the wall. . . . the Secretary of War (Mr. Baker), on returning from the front told a party of 20 men at the house of Hugh Wallace . . . that it was the general opinion that Paris was about to fall and that the Channel ports would be taken. Although that was serious, he said, he thought it was not fatal...
...asserted that action similar to New York's was threatened in ten states: Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Missouri, Nevada, Louisiana. To meet this condition the convention resolved to raise a war chest of $2,580,000. General Superintendent Baker declared : " We are prepared to match their (the Wets') strength dollar for dollar...
...largest crowd that ever saw a schoolboy baseball game (40,000) crammed its way into the Polo Grounds, New York, to see George Washington High School win for the second year in succession the inter-city championship from Lindblom School, Chicago, 4-3. "Honey" Baker, George Washington captain and third baseman, whose two hits won the game, signed to play with the New York Yankees after the game...