Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Wilson to the World. But Lippmann was moving gradually from Left to Right. By 1916 the New Republic was behind President Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt was flaying it. When the War came, after brief service as an assistant to Secretary of War Baker, Walter Lippmann was named secretary of an organization called The Inquiry, under Col. House. The Inquiry's purpose was to ascertain and formulate the peace aims and claims of all parties to the War. So well did Secretary Lippmann do his job?his abstract ideas filtered through to President Wilson's speeches?that he was sent...
Mild, sandy-haired little President Simon Strousse Baker of Washington & Jefferson college (Washington, Pa.) was about to conduct chapel one morning last week. As he finished reading an announcement, all but a scant dozen of his 432 students got up and marched out. They were striking. More than 300 of them had signed a petition demanding President Baker's removal, to be presented to the W. & J. Board of Trustees this week...
...even know what the strike is about," said President Baker indignantly...
Reputed to be astute in dealing with his undergraduates, President Baker asked what they expected him to do. He pointed out that he had spent $500,000 in campus improvements during his ten-year presidency, that motives of economy alone had prompted the dismissal of the three professors. The proposed athletic plant would have to wait upon other more pressing needs. As for the dress rules, he said he had merely suggested, six years ago, that his students might wear something more refined than lumberjack shirts and hob nailed boots...
President Baker favored discontinuance of classes (to avoid strife between the strikers and some 75 "scab" students). Next day the faculty recommended that classes be resumed. About half of the students went back to their books. For the time being. Washington & Jefferson was quiet...