Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week did the special committee investigating the Army Air Corps sum up its conclusions based on three months of closed hearings in which 105 military, naval and civilian aviation experts appeared as witnesses. The twelve-man committee, headed by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, published its findings in an 86-page report to Secretary of War Dern. Keynote of the report was a section in which the committee belittled the possibility of air invasion...
...organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods: design competition, negotiated contract and competitive bidding. ¶ As a final recommendation the Baker committee suggested that its report be used as a basis for development of the Army Air Corps for the next ten years...
...secret study by Newton Diehl Baker's board of the Army Air Corps and its shortcomings in flying the mail. Last week the Baker Committee finally approved its report, held it for publication this week...
...Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street." His gubernatorial platform...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...