Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BAKER...
Hardly touching the Cook's tour, musical comedy, three cafes and two operas Vienna, the play exploits the humorous and amorous possibilities of the butcher, baker, candlestick-maker life of the city. In keeping are the simple, cunning, and ludicrous characters, finely, but not brilliantly drawn by actors who show a tendency to overact their parts. The music is jazz, of whch nothing more need be said, relieved by some good waltzes and humorous bits, which Herr Max Hansen sings splendidly. If one understands German, the lines are worth hearing...
...elect learned that he could not crook his finger and get the ready services of his party's first & foremost. Much mentioned before election but not to be found on last week's slate were the national names of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Owen D. Young, Newton Diehl Baker, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Carter Glass. Even his two ranking Cabinet officers Mr. Roosevelt had to "draft" (his own word) into Federal service...
...succeeded in getting its man. On Monday morning at 9 a. m. Charles Edwin Mitchell, 66, resigned, and James Handasyd Perkins, 57, was promptly elected chairman of the nation's second biggest bank. Few hours later the directors of National City Co. accepted the resignation of President Hugh Baker. Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Baker returned to Washington for further grilling...
...cropped mustache, Banker Perkins graduated from Harvard when Harvard had a "Sound Money Campaign Club" and a "Total Abstinence League." He was a member of neither. Captain of the 1898 crew, First Marshal of his class (and president the three previous years), he went to work for Walter Baker & Co. (chocolate), quit in 1905 to become a vice president of a Boston bank...