Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray with Oklahoma's 22 votes in his pocket stumped the Mid-West with violence and passion. Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie charmed well-bred audiences while hoping for a convention deadlock to make him the lucky compromise candidate. Newton Diehl Baker went about his private business as if he had never heard of the Presidency...
...send him on a long tour of the country, standing on the rear of train platforms, haranguing the crowds, all to be done without the aid of crutches, campaign managers told the committee. There is at present a completely groundless rumor to the effect that Newton D. Baker has angina pectoris; but then, as one Republican campaign manager put it, "Every Democratic candidate has something wrong with...
...thoroughly deadlocked was the Geneva Conference last week that correspondents covering it had to scratch their heads and write about the nocturnal fun at Geneva's Casino, about the tawdry Geneva theatres now crowded nightly and about the "triumph"' of that yelping, undulant Negress, La Belle Josephine Baker. Songs by Negro and other crooners included "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "The Old Folks at Home" and "My Old Kentucky Home...
...ugly wife. When he discovered another man with her he did not shoot, or even shout. "He only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows, the two of them must milk cows...
Unless the weather man forgets himself, Hanover, come Saturday, will find itself steeped in the traditional millpond atmosphere of late winter. Under such conditions, it is neither invigorating nor enjoyable to tramp through College Park or climb the Tower. The wonder of Baker, Sanborn and Carpenter lose their appeal after the first hour or so and the question arises of where to go and what to do. For the fraternity man the solution is simple--there is always the house and the radio. But for the house and the radio. But for the freshman who has contributed his check...