Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevada. Raymond T. Baker, Democrat, v. Senator Tasker L. Oddie, Republican. Mr. Baker, rich, romantic, fashionable, is popular enough among Nevada's 33,000 voters to be given a slight edge over his opponent, who is rich but not romantic...
...alumni met, and a more distinguished group of graduates it would have been hard to find. To officiate at this meeting they had obtained the services of that scholar-politician who is often called "the best U. S. speech-maker": onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. In the gathering were: the first man to receive a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ernest G. Sihier** of New York University; the first man to receive a Johns Hopkins M. D., Dr. Charles R. Bardeen of the University of Wisconsin; the first woman to receive a Ph. D. from...
...name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said of him: "He is the ablest man that has appeared in public life in any country in my time." And again, a month ago, onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, who wants the U. S. to forgive and forget in the matter of European War debts said: "I would appoint a committee headed by Elihu Root, whom I believe to be the wisest statesman in America...
Married. Geraldine Livingston Thompson of Red Bank, N. J., to Howell Van Gerbig of New Canaan, Conn., onetime (1924) Princeton hockey captain ("another Hobey Baker") and far-punting footballer; in Manhattan...
...throne since 1922. Never since the days of "Big Jim" Colosimo (the man with the diamond complex) has the underworld had so potent an organizer. "Scarface Al," except for the old razor gash on one side of his face, might easily be mistaken for a fat, prosperous baker. King Caponi does not bake. With his brothers, Ralph and James, he keeps the beer route flowing and the political machinery of Cicero running. At the last election 20 workers of the anti-Caponi party were kidnaped, slugged, hidden away. Many voters were beaten up as they entered or left polling places...