Word: baker
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...other Chambers of Commerce throughout the country cast their ballot in the same way, is the stand of the United States Chamber of Commerce the opinion from a "cross section of the country," or merely the opinion of a numerically insignificant few. Is not their claim misleading ? WALTER C. BAKER Member of C. of C. Niagara Falls, N. Y. For an account of how another U. S. Chamber poll was held...
...humble opinion Mr. C. B. Bratton of Waco, Texas, displays a great lack of information in his letter flaying Mr. Newton D. Baker which appears in your Dec. 5 issue of TIME. In his letter he says something about men that held commissions in the A. E. F. From his letter I am not sure that he knows that General Pershing and Vice President Dawes, held commissions in the A. E. F. They did, however, and I know they will be glad to tell him that his letter is absurd. Anyone that reads at all knows in what esteem these...
...great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely and understandingly. Orders were given in plain language when I set out and I think Mr. Baker will bear me out that those orders were never changed and never modified. I was given full confidence. ... I ever shall be grateful."-and of whom Vice President Charles G. Dawes said: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the Great War President of the United...
Sirs : In connection with the mention of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom...
...letter written to Charles Sumner by Dickens. There is also a collection of books printed by Bruce Rogers, and some Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. Completing the exhibit is a recent book containing the prologue which was read at the opening of the theatre of Professor G. P. Baker '87 at Yale...