Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though such prominent Democratic lawyers as John William Davis, Newton Diehl Baker and Frank Lyon Polk were not publicly outraged. Governor Roosevelt's use of "control'' was undoubtedly ill-chosen. The Supreme Court is properly divided not as Republicans and Democrats but as Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench...
Four days before election Newton Diehl Baker has his most important date of the campaign, at Montclair, N. J.* Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...
...responsibility for the present depression can be laid at anyone's door, surely big business is the most likely doorstep," declared Newton D. Baker, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Many of us have grown up in the United States to feel that the capitalistic system brings with it the largest social and economic gains. The period of depression in which we are now plunged has taught us that this system has defects. Thousands who have suffered in the present crisis have for years entrusted their independence to the leaders in the capitalistic world. If these leaders...
...Baker has lately entered the campaign to speak for the Democratic cause, in addition to his already active share in party politics. He delivered a eulogy of Woodrow Wilson in the Democratic convention of 1920. At present he is engaged as Chairman of the Unemployment Relief Mobilization Committee for the entire country. Two years ago he received an honorary degree of LI.D. from Harvard University for his achievements...
...will be Mayor Russell, who will talk on working at the polls in Cambridge on election day in an effort to encourage undergraduates to aid the Democratic party and at the same time become exposed to the practical workings of political work. Professor Frankfurter will speak next, introducing Mr. Baker...