Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to carry it effort lessly by 20,000 Republican votes. Last year, hard pressed by an aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft, his home is in the Indian Hill section and his golf is played at the best clubs. He went into...
Favorite Sons. No. 2 Democratic candidate of the moment is Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. His out-&-out Wetness led observers to believe that the Smith-Raskob wing of Democracy would favor him for the nomination if Governor Roosevelt persists in weasling. Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland continued as a passive candidate. The name of Owen D. Young faded more & more out of Democratic Presidential speculation, due largely to his refusal to countenance his own candidacy. Favorite sons included Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Governor-Elect Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey...
...indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more real. A new seriousness, almost philosophical, came over the undergraduates-and Princeton...
...confused with the late great Princeton hockey player, footballer and War ace Hobart ("Hobey") Amory Hare Baker...
...more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...