Word: baker
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...university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts. He first joined the Rockefellers as an investigator of European police systems. In 1916 Newton Diehl Baker sent him to the Mexican border, recalled him after U. S. entry into the World War to take charge of training camp activities. After the Armistice President Wilson appointed him Undersecretary of the League of Nations, a post from which he resigned after the Senate refused to ratify the League...
Boston--Thomas Grover, Harry Kennard Mansfield, George Pershing Mayhew, Robert Baker Partlow, William Redman Tully...
This performance not only set a Hambletonian record and enriched Shirley Hanover's 39-year-old owner, Lawrence Baker Sheppard, by $20,916 of the $38,000 purse, but made his Hanover Shoe Farms the only two-time winner in the history of the race. Shirley Hanover's dam, Hanover's Bertha, carried the stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead...
After the race last week Owner Shep pard, who posted Shirley Hanover's final $500 starting fee only on the insistence of Driver Thomas, thought he might in two or three years have a really great trotter. The fastest active U. S. trotter, Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Grey hound, who stepped a mile in 1:57¼ in a free-for-all at Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen...
...this good Montessori doctrine was roundly applauded. Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch got up to add: "We must help by seeing that history books are purged of all biased records which inculcate national hatreds. Brazil, Argentina and Scandinavia have already made great progress." British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training...