Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract which led to a better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving...
Frankly acknowledging the substantial volume of criticism directed in recent times at the Graduate School of Business Administration and its place in Harvard University, President Conant last night in Baker Library pointed to his own field of chemistry for a defense. To critics of the Flexner school who assert that a business faculty has no place in an educational institution devoted to the pursuit of liberal arts, Mr. Conant told Business School students: "We are dealing here with a profession and not an art Business is the oldest of the arts and the latest of the professions...
Arizona Democrats renominated eloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst because of his long and loyal services, Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur in spite of his State tax program, Congresswoman-at-large Isabella Greenway because of her personal popularity and close connection with the White House...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...indictment of Messrs. Baker, Harriman, O'Gorman et al. was the first wholesale action against any of the big Manhattan guaranteed mortgage companies since the Moreland Act investigation began (TIME, Feb. 5). While hundreds of old people who had lost their all in this type of investment took to the streets as pickets demanding action. District Attorney William Copeland Dodge lately dropped all his other duties to be free to prosecute the guaranteed mortgage cases...