Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resting place of many of America's most distinguished dead among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...
...outstanding inaccurate statement in Corporal Baker's letter is that the C.C.C. men are doing useless labor. Our camp is located...
...case in many instances, the rebuilding of character and stamina that has begun to deteriorate over a period of enforced idleness and hanging about street corners is not "useless." This alone would be worth the effort the President has made in launching the Corps, even if Corporal Baker's assertion regarding the work the Conservation Corps is doing were an accurate statement...
Some C.C.C. camps might receive the free tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows of which Corporal G. F. Baker speaks in his letter "Raw Deal" (TIME, June 26), but ours doesn't. It is true, however, that our laundry is done at no cost to us. Any time we're free to we can borrow a bucket, heat some water in it over an open fire, and wash our clothes...
Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears...