Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Painter Salisbury has done the portraits of England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
...hurlyburly attendant on the departure of a royal visitor the knaeckebroed was forgotten. But the baker took speedboat, pursued, delivered a package of the famed, though nearly tasteless, knaeckebroed...
...union of Bank of the Manhattan Co. with International Acceptance brings together one of the oldest of U. S. banking families and one of the oldest of international banking families. The U. S. family is Baker, contemporary Baker being J. Stewart, president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., Vice Chairman of International Acceptance. The international family is Warburg, current Warburgs being Brothers Paul & Felix. The present story, however, concerns only Brother Paul, Board Chairman of International Acceptance, Associate Chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., and his son, James P., who will become president of International Manhattan...
Hardly less ancient than the House of Warburg is the House of Baker, but the Bakers have not so continuously been bankers, and the Baker bank has not remained always in Baker control. This bank-the Bank of the Manhattan Co., was organized in 1799. One of its original stockholders was Stephen Baker. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. did not remain a Baker property, but did return to the Baker family 35 years ago. J. Stewart Baker, present head, succeeded his father, Stephen Baker, grandson of Stephen the Founder...