Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard graduates who were elected are M. P. Baker '22 and E. C. Glover '24 of the third year class and J. F. Fulton '21 and J. B. Sears '23 of the fourth year class...
Personalities. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover headed a flood commission appointed by the President. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross Director of Relief, supervised Red Cross work. One-time Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana was appointed by Mr. Hoover as flood relief director in his state, was aided by present Governor Oramel Hinkley Simpson...
...faulty copies of the Christian Science gospel, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, came up for auction sale in Manhattan last week. It was a first (1875) edition and contained many printer's errors. Mary Baker Eddy knew of 66. Economical, she disliked reprinting the whole volume; honest she listed the errata on a separate leaf. Because one of these errata leaves was in the book offered for sale last week...
...Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) twice widowed, once divorced, created a sect that now shows all signs of permanency. Its central tenet, as everyone knows, is that spirit alone is real. Matter is the projection of mind; disease, "error" of thought. Members of her Church of Christ, Scientist, come to meetings. "Readers" recite sections of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures; at certain services fellow-believers rise and tell "experiences," express thanks for "favors" done them in misery. They have the consolation of being well regimented in one of 2,200 Christian Science congregations...
...largely destroyed the old travelling stock companies, but that a great deal of theatrical experimentation was being accomplished by amateur organizations, which took the place of the stock companies. "The whole renaissance," he said "of amateur theatricals on a dignified same scale owes its origin to George Pierce Baker...