Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emil Ganso was once a baker in Germany. Last week he had left bread far behind. His pictures hung in a dozen exhibitions,* and the Print Club of Cleveland picked his wood engraving At the Seashore by an overwhelming vote to print, mount and send to its wealthy, art-loving members as its 1932 publication...
Carmen was the best show in Cleveland's opera week. Newton Diehl Baker was lustily applauded when he entered. (Later an alert observer saw him pay for some punch with an old-fashioned big $1 bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience...
...Trust Co. of White Plains, N. Y. Banker Rowley entered his profession at the age of 15, when he became an employe of Bank of Nova Scotia. No reason for the resignation was given except that Banker Rowley would take a long rest. He was succeeded by John Stewart Baker, 38, chairman of Manhattan Co. as his father was before...
...rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...School in 1906, Felix Frankfurter served as an assistant U. S. attorney in the south ern district of New York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. In 1917-18 he was confidential assistant to Secretary of War Baker. Considerable notoriety attached itself to Professor Frankfurter as a result of his sympathy for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, radicals condemned to death in 1927 for murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard. While not of their defense counsel, he bitterly attacked the legal operations which sent them...