Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorce seekers under the new law included Evelyn Loew Burrill, whose grandfather, Banker George Fisher Baker died last week (see p. 61); Louise Straus Celestin, daughter of New York's Nathan Straus; Catharine Stone Hoyt, wife of Hayden, Stone's Richard Farnsworth Hoyt...
...Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress, U. S. troops, with an 8-to-i preponderance of manpower, stormed it resolutely, in four days blotted it out. Secretary Baker was a happy spectator of the battle. On a 25-mile front the U. S. had captured 16,000 prisoners, lost 7,000 men. Only drawback: the Germans, forewarned, had started to withdraw from the St. Mihiel salient 24 hours before the attack...
...must to all men, Death came, last week, to George Fisher Baker...
...story troubled them. Here was the third or fourth richest man in the world, the greatest personal power in U. S. finance, and yet, unlike Ford or Rockefeller, his name alone would not carry. Mr. Baker would have to be explained, but there was scarcely a note in all the newspaper files with which to particularize the remote legend of a chop-whiskered old man of great wealth. His philanthropies were many, exceeding in recent years $12,000,000. To Harvard he, a non-college man, gave the $5,000.000 foundation for the School of Business Administration...
...reporters waited through the long cold May afternoon while downtown U. S. Steel and other stocks sank to new lows. They saw two of Mr. Baker's three children enter the house. One was George Fisher baker Jr. The other was Mrs. William Goadby Loew. Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George was at her England home...