Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Dr. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the centre of an international incident...
Along with Mr. Howard on the credit side of Keep Moving's ledger is a vulgar man named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw...
...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9¢ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10¢. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...
Last week NRA's compliance officer in Idaho quickly found an excuse for sidestepping a contest with Lawyer Borah over Baker Nestak's bread prices. Said he in his best face-saving style...
...would seem that under the circumstances . . . the baker was within his rights...