Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corpse, deserted by thought, is cold and decays, but it never suffers."-Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy in Science & Health...
...BAKER...
Wage increases were taking place all over the country. In Akron, where Newton Diehl Baker was trying to bring harmony to the embattled rubber industry, Goodyear, Firestone. General. Mohawk all announced 10% raises. Seiberling upped pay 5%. The Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary...
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
Thus the year after stepping into C. & O., they joined with bushy-whiskered old George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, to buy control of the Erie. Wanting outlets for the coal shipped over the C. & O. they bought into Pere Marquette (which served the industrial part of Michigan...