Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME offers no correction, having committed no error. What TIME published was a letter from Member Walter C. Baker of the Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce, describing in his own words that Chamber's vote on tax-cutting. Member Baker thought the vote unrepresentative. Secretary House (above) says it was not unrepresentative...
...week in Cleveland, Bishop Frederick Llewelyn Deane of Aberdeen and Orkney, repeated a "bit of a jibe" about a woman (the U. S.) who rushed up to a kindly old gentleman (Great Britain), begged him to hold her baby (the League of Nations), then disappeared. Up rose Newton Diehl Baker to whom the League is dear. Said he: "I am not one of those who disowned the baby, bishop...
...best display of squash played this year on the University courts, Captain J. L. Pool '28 of the University team, combining speed with accuracy, defeated M. P. Baker '25 of the Boston Athletic Association, three straight sets Saturday in the concluding series of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association tournament. The University, however, lost its series of matches by a score of 3-2, and thereby dropped to third place in the Association tournament. The other three University teams were victorious in their matches...
...members of his family already held interests. None of them had ever displayed the energy or ability which characterized the operations of Myron Taylor. The consolidations which he effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan. Banker Baker, who with the first John P. Morgan and the late Judge Gary constituted the first U. S. steel triumvirate, made Mr. Taylor a director of his bank...
...Taylor cut down his textile holdings and became essentially a banker. He was elected to the directorate of two railroads- the New York Central and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; he was made a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. It was rumored that Banker Baker persuaded Myron Taylor to become one of the directors of U. S. Steel; surely, it was his support coupled with the approval of John P. Morgan that gave Myron Taylor one of the three executive offices in this gargantuan corporation...