Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirkland Lawler, l.e. l.e.Sinclair Watt,l.w. l.w., MacGregor Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h.,Irving Pugh, h.b. h.b.,Vivian W. Carter, 3f 3f., Calvert Farris, 3f 3f., LeGrange Wheeler, 3f 3f.,MacLagan Oppenheimer, 2f 2f.,Marshall Schewyzer, 2f 2f., Robinson Fallon, l.f. l.f.,Adams White, l.f. l.f.,Fisher Straus, l.f. l.f.,Baker...
...Kirkland Lawler, l.c. l.c., Sinclair Watt, l.w. l.w., MacGregor Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Irving Pugh, h.b. h.b., Vivian W. Carter, 3f. 3f., Calvert Farris, 3f. 3f., LeGrange Wheeler, 3f. 3f., MacLagan Oppenheimer, 2f. 2f., Marshall Schwyzer, 2f. 2f., Robinson Fallon, l.f. l.f., Adams White, l.f. l.f., Fisher Straus, l.f. l.f., Baker...
...Baker presented a strange mixture of qualities. Possessed of a personality and will so compelling that few ventured to stand in his path, he was also fortunate enough to have a degree of foresight, judgment, and daring rarely rivalled in the financial history of this country. In his business relations he exhibited a hardness which was difficult to reconcile with the kindly consideration which he always displayed toward his personal friends. Over them he exercised an almost magical spell, and there were few who knew him well who did not love him. His manner in private life was smoothly, charming...
...remember, him. The First National Bank, as near a one-man enterprise as it is possible for a $400,000,000 corporation to be, will stand as a monument to his fame as long as there is a shred of capitalism and conservatism in the land. It was Mr. Baker's job to build up this prince of commercial banks; it is the task of his less imaginative and more conservative successors to maintain it. Outside of the First National, Mr. Baker's chief interests were in America's two greatest pioneer industries, Steel and Railroads. In these his influence...
...death of George Fisher Baker writes "finis" to one of the most remarkable records of service and accomplishment that this country will ever...