Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke University, Durham, N. C., student delegates from every State and Territory participated in a Democratic Convention sponsored by politically fervid law students. Amid typical convention scenes, Owen D. Young was nominated for the Presidency, after a prolonged deadlock between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker had thrown the assembly into an uproar. William ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray turned a surprising upset by being unanimously acclaimed the party's choice for the Vice Presidency. Other nominees: Joe ("Arkansas") Robinson, Albert C. Ritchie, Alfred E. Smith, Jim Reed, and Will Rogers...
...connection with the many deaths resulting from strikes. The tirade against communism and other radical institutions by the presiding judge, who convicted these men drew the fire of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. When the reporters criticized the judiciary methods the courts were closed to the press. Newton D. Baker at attorney for the paper then brought suit to have the courts reopened, and lost his case. Finally a committee of writers headed by Waldo Frank entered the investigation. They did not get even the courtesy of a trial, but were ushered out of the state with little ceremony...
Last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Newton Diehl Baker the week before, turned thumbs down on the League of Nations. Plain to all now was the fact that Democratic candidates for the Presidency were desperately anxious to let this ghostly old issue lie buried in its political grave throughout...
...Republican League foes gave themselves up to quiet ironic chuckling at the ghost-laying of Democrats Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
...Wall Street, where he works hard for the $141,028,000-in-assets Manhattan Co. group of concerns (Bank of Manhattan Trust, International Acceptance Banks. New York Title & Mortgage and others), young Mr. Warburg is the junior member of another "team." Its senior member is John Stewart Baker, 38, whose great grandfather was one of the Manhattan Co.'s founders 133 years ago. whose father. Stephen Baker, 72, preceded the late famed Mr. Warburg in the chairmanship and still lends distinction to its board, i Last week the Baker-Warburg team advanced to the topnotch. Young Mr. Baker...