Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another caller was George Fisher Baker, white-whiskered Manhattan financier, just turned 88. Mr. Baker, on his way home from the South, stayed at the White House for lunch, chatted optimistically about Business...
Newton Diehl Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes...
Following these lectures an exhibition showing the technical and business development of the industry will be held in Baker Library...
...when they are of certain foreign extractions. A great deal of this is undoubtedly justified so far as the selection of students is concerned, but in it also lies the evil which earlier forced Munsterberg and Santayana to resign and which more recently caused the withdrawal of Baker and MacDougall. And now, since the Sacco-Vanzetti case, there is an antagonism in the Law School against Frank-furter. Why should not a professor bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public and human interest? The result has been, (as most obviously seen in the English and Philosophy Departments) that...
When he was an undergraduate he was a member of the 47 Workshop Company of Professor G. P. Baker '87. While on the stage in New York City he did acting and stage managing with the Production Group of Kenneth MacGowan '11, Robert Edmund Jones '11, and Eugene O'Neill '15, in a number of plays including O'Neill's "The Great God Brown." Before going on the stage Professor Packard was an assistant in public speaking under I. L. Winter of Harvard. Last year he was director of dramatics at Dartmouth College, and during the summer...