Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Attorney General Cummings announced the imminence of Federal suits for income tax evasion against Andrew William Mellon, Thomas Stillwell Lamont, Thomas L. Sidlo (law partner of Newton D. Baker) and James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York's runaway mayor. Details of evidence were not disclosed...
...hours of that last morning of balloting at the famous Chicago Convention of July, 1932, Mr. Roosevelt's fate hung in the hands of just a handful of men. A mistake of judgment then and the nomination might have been blocked and a compromise candidate chosen, perhaps Newton Baker or Gover nor Ritchie...
...patronesses include the Mmes. Norton Campbell, Ralph Baker, Joseph H. Beale, G. K. Gardner, Sheldon Glueck, Eldon R. James, Calvert McGruder, Edward M. Morgan, Josef Redlich, W. A. Seavey, Edward S. Thurston, Sam B. Warner, and Miss Emily Williston...
Members of the paper's staff bought in desks, typewriters and office equipment of the Transcript for $15.84. Another bought in the Transcript's $18,500 press for $41.93, deeded it right back to Editor Baker. In zero weather, Sheriff F. H. Brandt went about the town selling out other Susquehanna concerns. A house fetched 81? a lumber yard, $7.98, automobiles, 25?. Because Susquehanna townsfolk were united allies of Editor Baker, all the properties went back to their original owners. The Canawacta Water Company lost $800 by the sales...
...hour after his paper had been sold, Editor Baker jumped in his Chevrolet coach, drove 40 miles to make a speech on "the finer things in citizenship." First issue of the Transcript after the sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies...