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Word: baker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boss of Cuyahoga County and Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, controlled managers as well as mayors. Last week, Clevelanders definitely broke Boss Maschke's 16-year rule over City Hall by electing a Democratic mayor for the first time since the pre-War days of Newton Diehl Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Turnover | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...night last week President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard said a number of things so good that soon they were on the way to President Hoover and to Congress in the form of a petition signed by President Woodrow Wilson's peaceful Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, and many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Egg of Peace | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Geneva the Council of the League of Nations had just convoked the League Assembly to meet on March 3 apropos of Japan and it was this fact which had caused the president of Harvard and Cleveland's Baker to hatch their dynamite. Excerpt from this egg, laid metaphorically by the Dove of Peace: "If it shall be found [by the League Assembly] that Japan has resorted to war without submitting the dispute to arbitration, judicial settlement or to the Council-none of which has been done-it will be the covenanted duty of all the members of the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Egg of Peace | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Subscriber McKee reconsider his decision. TIME, Feb. 1, was reporting the contents of 'Mental Healers, in which Stephen Zweig gives his account of Franz Anton Mesmer (mesmerism), Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Damasciis (see p. 45). Not to be confused with famed Bartab Koran, a crystal gazer, who claims' credit for forecasting President Hoover's election in 19-28, the Japanese earthquake, the Manchurian crisis. Attracting enormous crowds to vaudeville, Bartab Koran has predicted that this year Newton Diehl Baker would be nominated by the Democrats, that the Democrats will carry all before them until Election Day when Herbert Hoover will be reelected. Calling at the White House, he was photographed with the President to whom he gave a gold idol from Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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