Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revealed to Portland was the test which 15-year-old Helen Hanna took. Things Helen knew: that George L. Baker is Portland's Mayor; that George V is England's King; Herbert Hoover the U. S. President; Calvin Coolidge, ex-President; George Washington, first President; that electricity "lights, shocks"; that tea comes from Japan. She knew the meanings of: copper, dungeon, lecture, haste. Things she did not know: the life-span of a horse; the largest city in the U. S.; why the heart beats. If she were hunting a ball lost in a circular field and were...
...Citizen hired Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland to prosecute the complaint against Judge Bostwick before three nonresident judges. As the case drew to a close last week it crowded nearly all other news off the Citizen's front pages. Lawyer Baker's summation was printed in full for more than eight columns. Then came the verdict of "guilty." The Citizen, and all Scripps-Howard, crowed proudly. The headline of a typical S-H Little-Dramas advertisement began to suggest itself, something like: "The Judge Who Gave Like an Indian...
...terms of the bequest of George H. Leatherbee one course in the Harvard Business School, George Baker Foundation, is open annually without expense to properly qualified men. In accordance with the terms of this bequest, during the year 1931-32, "Real Estate Fundamentals" will be open without charge to such men as satisfy the School that they are in a position to profit from the work of the course. This course will be given by Associate Professor Frank De W. Washburn...
...wide field is open to the news candidates, who in the course of his competition may leave tracks from the stacks of Baker Library to the inmost recesses of Langdell Hall. Assigned to two or three routine sources, candidates are encouraged to secure "scoops", interviews with a wide variety of victims, and feature stories, and to submit editorial material...
...three receptions are as follows: For the Law School, on Wednesday in the New Courts Room of Langdell Hall; for the Business School, on Thursday in the Baker Library; for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, on Friday in the Faculty Room, University Hall, President Lowell will speak at the last...