Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of four subsequent meetings in connection with the celebration has been planned to take place in Baker Library in the evenings at 8 o'clock. The first of these, "The Study of the Past; Its Uses and Its Dangers," will be given by A. N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, on Thursday. The dates for the remaining three meetings are Friday, April 21, Friday, April 28, and Friday, April 5, and largely involve the problems facing the business world...
...Issue. Has F. P. C. authority over plants to be built on non-navigable streams under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal Government? Onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, as attorney for Appalachian, argued it had no such power while Huston Thompson, onetime Federal Trade Commissioner, as F. P. C. attorney, argued that...
...Decision. Attorney Thompson won, Attorney Baker lost. Federal Judge Luther Way decided that the Appalachian project came under F. P. C. jurisdiction because the New River, though not navigable itself, flows into the navigable Kanawha which in turn flows into the navigable Ohio. A power dam on the New River could affect downstream navigability and hence interstate commerce. The effect of the decision was to compel Appalachian to accept F. P. C.'s authority in the form of a standard license instead of getting a "minor part" license which involves no Government regulation, no recapture. If sustained by higher...
...next issue, when it appears, there will be articles on both the college tutorial system and the commercial tutoring bureaus, dealing with the competence and limitations of each. Newton D. Baker, Clarence Darrow, and others have written dissertations on the relation of college training to public service. Various other articles, both by students and professors, are under consideration, notably one being written at present by Dr. C. J. Friedrich, lecturer on Government...
...Venice, and a bull-fight bloody and violent. Part two is an Oriental suite with singing and romancing. The scene then transfers to the tropics. Singing in the rain is the overture number followed by a Salome and sister act. A presentation in the manner and spirit of Josephine Baker was realistic, seductive, and sung by Lia Podrecca...