Word: baker
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Another college without a president is the University of Virginia. Another president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Newton Diehl Baker (whom Princeton's Morris succeeded), lately pooh-poohed the suggestion that he had been offered the Virginia post occupied by Dean John Lloyd Newcomb since the death of Edwin Anderson Alderman last year. Last week Virginia was apparently no nearer than Princeton to finding...
...when ambitious Martin Davey, Ohio tree surgeon and onetime Congressman, tried to draft Woodrow Wilsons Secretary of War for the primary, Mr. Baker sat down hard on the idea. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He insisted that "all hands" favored Governor White. He went on about his Cleveland law practice as if he had never heard of the Presidency. Mr. Davey, no friend of Governor White, was accused of promoting the Baker boom more to hurt White than to nominate Baker...
...Become President." By such behavior Mr. Baker, deliberately or not, was making himself more available than if he had got out and grubbed for convention votes as he grubs for weeds in his garden. Besides, he was following most of the rules of "How to Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). He had a Press (Rule No. 5) in & out of Ohio. He moved about the country (Rule No. 6) showing himself, making speeches. Except for a mild touch of pneumonia in 1930, he seemed full of health (Rule No. 7). He was on good terms with his party leaders...
Only on Rule No. 4 (Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue} had Mr Baker tripped and fallen. From Wilson he had inherited the League of Nations issue on which he hammered away at every possible opportunity. Last winter he made a particularly fervent plea for U S action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question...
Lock & Logic? The speculative logic of a Baker nomination at Chicago rests squarely upon a convention deadlock such as seemed to be in the making last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt still lacked a majority of first-ballot votes which has clinched the nomination at every convention since 1848.? Bitterly leagued against him were the Smith and Garner forces, which, with "favorite son" votes, might yet constitute a veto of Governor Roosevelt's ambition. Groggy from such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray...