Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spoke Newton Diehl Baker in Manhattan last week before he sailed for Mexico. Less than a fortnight before in a ringing letter to the League of Nations Association, he had passionately appealed for U. S. membership at Geneva. During that fortnight Baker-for-President stock slumped sharply. His second statement disentangling his personal and political views was unmistakable evidence to many observers that Mr. Baker was not as uninterested in the Presidency as he had appeared...
...Wilson Administration. It helped defeat James Middleton Cox in 1920. Even today a political belief persists that no outspoken friend of the League can sit in the White House. But as a practical issue the League is so moribund that few persons bothered to associate Mr. Baker with it until he doggedly championed U. S. entry last month. Well aware of the damage it can do parties and politicians he hastened to lay its ghost...
Hardly had Mr. Baker's boat passed through the Narrows before speculation began to fit him into the 1932 Democratic puzzle picture. His friends liked to depict him as a rallying point for the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. He was also envisioned as a compromise nominee after a possible deadlock between Smith and Roosevelt forces on the convention floor had spent itself...
...with a great assortment of men ranging from those who were earnestly pressing on to those who sat back passively in the hope Presidential lightning would strike them. The Democratic field: Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, Oklahoma's William Henry Murray, Texas' John Nance Garner, Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, New York's Owen D. Young, Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, Tennessee's Cordell Hull, Illinois' Melvin Alvah Traylor?and, of course, New York's Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science turns hypnotism upwards and inwards, makes it mostly self-hypnotism. Cured of incipient paralysis by a professional healer, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, she borrowed his practice, added to it a religious fervor all her own. Faith and churches were her remedies for almost every disease...