Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker on Velvet. Newton Diehl Baker, discussing technological Unemployment in Manhattan last fortnight, declared: "The advantages and gains which come from machinery have no right to be all velvet to industry unless they are velvet to society. Industry has no right to take till the gains that come from this rapid substitution of machine process for human hands without bearing a substantial part of the consequent dislocation of the human element which it causes...
...Cost: $100,000. Item: 2,000 cases of champagne. To an account of the Hutton ball the New York Times gave two columns. A two inch paragraph on the same page reported the debut, the same evening, of Florence, daughter of potent, conservative Banker & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. Setting: the Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa...
...seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing stars surrounded by an electric display." Said she: "I thought of the Star of Bethlehem." Scientist Francis Baker Laney, professor of geology at the University of Idaho, Moscow, thought of meteors when he heard the news.* The flash and crash, he announced, were similar to those which in 1921 attended the fall of a large meteor in the nearby Seven Devils country. Laney thought the new cosmic projectile...
Newton D. Baker and Howard F. Burns of Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo, Cleveland; Kennedy, Manchester, Ford, Bennett & Powers, Youngstown; Frederick H. Wood and Hoyt A. Moore of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Manhattan. Judge Jenkins had heard his Courtroom reverberate to huge figures in dollars, steel, shares. He had heard the testimony of great steelmasters, of accountants. Few people expected that by last week he would have reached a decision. To the Court Clerk the Judge handed 19 pages of foolscap, written in pencil. To newsmen he gave two similar sheaves which he had carefully copied from the original, fearful...
Wiston defeated Harvard Freshmen 5-0 B.M. Baker. Jr. (W.) defeated F. M. Kirkland 15-8, 15-12, 15-16, 15-3, K.G.B. Parsons (W.) defeated R. C. Vose 16-14, 15-12, 17-16. J. F. Doyle (W.) defeated S. E. Davenport 18-17, 15-12, J. Cross (W.) defeated W. F. Nichols 18-16, 17-16, 14-16, 17-18, 18-17. G. Grant (W.) defeated P. W. Herrick...