Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1867 Scholarship, awarded after mid-years to a Freshman, was awarded to Ira Alexander Watson, of Brockton. The Walcott Scholarship, founded in 1855, by Samuel Baker Walcott, of the Class of 1819, was awarded to John Bradford Bowditch, of Concord. The John Flack Winslow Scholarship, founded in 1930, by Mrs. John Flack Winslow, was awarded to William Ames Coates, of Quincy...
...their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking was not made by Amschel on his death bed. It evolved when Nathan, ablest of Mayer's sons, set out for England to seek his fortune, wrote home for more money to buy goods...
George Fisher Baker was born in Troy, N. Y. in 1840. His line of shrewd, blue-eyed, hard-bitten Yankees went back seven generations to Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs...
...John C. Baker, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration will talk Thursday, at 7.30 o'clock in Dunster House...
Sidney Howard had graduated from the University of California, studied under George Pierce Baker at Harvard, driven an ambulance during the War, edited Life, written five plays and married Actress Clare Eames before he turned out his first success in 1924. Prior to the opening of They Knew What They Wanted, Playwright Howard, to be on the safe side, got a $50-a-week job on the New York World. He was supposed to start work the day after the opening. He was still abed when Editor Swope telephoned: "I see by the morning papers you don't need...