Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pervade reports of the U. S. mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take...
George Fisher Baker Jr. was elected a trustee of Consolidated Gas Co, of New York, succeeding his father...
...Conference record), placed second in the mile, the 440, and the shot-put. Kabat's discus throw, 150 ft. 10½ in., nowhere near the record but five feet better than Purma of Illinois could do, decided the championship-for Wisconsin. Michigan's relay team (Eknovich, De Baker, Glading, Russell) broke the Conference record in the mile relay, but Illinois won the hammer throw, finished second to Wisconsin, 1½ points ahead of Michigan...
...make front-page news in their respective homes. Havre's Mayor Leon Meyer greeted them with a long flowery speech. Baltimore's Ex-Mayor Broening* proposed a mock marriage to symbolize the union of "Uncle Sam and Miss France." The groom was beetle-browed George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. The bride was Mrs. Claire Skeel Baker who said: "We were originally married at Medford, Ore. in 1911 but we're glad to have it ratified in France."† After Mayor Meyer had performed the service in the Hotel de Ville, the bridal bouquet was placed...
...late Mr. Bedford lived in Westport, Conn., commuted five days a week to his Manhattan office. He had white chop whiskers like the late George F. Baker's, a fondness for gardens and horses (especially trotters which he still drove at 80), an antipathy to tobacco and liquor. In business he was stern, having received late training (after 40) in the hard school that was old Standard Oil. Rockefeller, Pratt, Archbold and Rogers were among his teachers in that school...