Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newton Diehl Baker...
...most important chair has for five years been the one around on Broadway at the head of the directors' table of United States Steel Corp. Mr. Morgan assumed that position in 1927 upon Judge Gary's death at the urgent request of his good friend the late George Fisher Baker. It was understood that his duties were to be next to nominal, the position temporary. Last week Banker Morgan resigned this second most important chair, saw placed in it Myron Charles Taylor, long groomed for the post as chairman of the finance committee. Chairman Taylor's duties will...
Only in China is kidnapping so common as in the U. S., but in China the prizes are seldom so rich, particularly since U. S. missionary societies have moved to discourage kidnapping by refusing to pay any ransoms whatever.* A rich prize is Capt. Charles Baker of Pasadena, who used to pilot a river boat from Shanghai up through the Yangtze rapids. In January he ran aground in Hupeh Province, somewhere near Kienli District which has a "Communist" bandit government. The Kienli bandits ferried Capt. Baker ashore, a most-valuable bit of salvage, and held him for ransom. Capt. Baker...
Last week Capt. Baker's friends persuaded the Nationalist government to take a strange step. Instead of paying more Baker ransoms, the Chinese Government agreed to try some kidnapping too. Yangtze naval patrols were ordered to raid Kienli villages, kidnap likely bandits in the hope of effecting a swap...
...good dance record of "You're Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics and do not mind harsh, off-pitch singing...