Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Washington last week Vice President Charles Curtis crossed the Alleghenies to Huntington, W. Va., to deliver the 93rd commencement address of Marshall College, to receive an honorary LL.D. Although not a college graduate, the Vice President is no novice at accepting degrees (LL.D.'s, Washburn College, Baker University and Kansas State Teachers' College; all in Kansas). Nevertheless at Marshall he seemed to fumble his manuscript, looked nervously at the audience which packed the ornate cinema theatre where the ceremony was held. Confused, he turned and, momentarily mistaking the faculty on the platform behind him for the graduating class, began...
Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of New York Litt.D...
Those dissident Christian Scientists who in 1912 organized the Christian Science Parent Church in opposition to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science Mother Church (The First Church of Christ, Scientist) in Boston, last week changed the name of their organization to the Church of Universal Design. More, they renounced Mrs. Eddy as discoverer of their cult. In her place they put Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Portland (Me.) clockmaker and "mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science...
...site where the original bank stood in 1799, the Bank of Manhattan Building bears soaring tribute to the four men (Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of Manhattan Co.,** James P. Warburg, president of International Manhattan Co., John Stewart Baker, chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan Co., Stephen Baker, chairman of Bank of Manhattan Trust Co.) whose energy and banking prowess have brought their house to its present prominence among other Manhattan banks...
...given to wealthy men merely because they are wealthy. Yet, in spite of this policy, funds have been obtained in the past ten years for the construction of an exceptionally well-equipped chemistry laboratory, of a new women's dormitory, of several units of the ambitiously conceived Baker Dormitories for men, and of Willard Straight Hall, with its banquet rooms, its cafeterias, its lounging rooms, and one of the best equipped theatres of any university in the country. Also excavation for the foundations of a new building for the Law School has recently been started...