Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leaving Mrs. Walker behind, he dined "stag" with some men who later took him along "The Trail of the Grand Dukes," from cabaret to cabaret in the Montmartre district. In the resort of Josephine Baker, U. S. Negress, his presence was riotously acclaimed...
Business School, Reading room, Baker Library...
Newton D. Baker, Wartime War Secretary, arose and said: "Almost ten years have gone by and we are beginning to see the real meaning and the precious fruit of the struggle. In the Old World, at least, men's minds are constructively working for peace. . . . Whether this or that nation joins or does not join them means more, no doubt, to some of us zealots than it really does in the long run to the cause...
...clenched in his fist when he arose to speak. But before unfurling it, he ejaculated at audience and microphone: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the great Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible...
...evening turned up the silver sliver of a new moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled...