Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...
...market for platinum is controlled by the selling agencies of a few producers. The big producers in Canada, Colombia and South Africa sell directly to the trade and to jobbers through a handful of agents such as Johnson & Matthey of London and Charles Engelhard, head of Baker & Co. of Newark. Russia sells through Amtorg. With this small field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess...
Thus snorted handsome, Harvard-bred John H. Baker, the banker-trained executive-director of the National Association of Audubon Societies when, last fortnight, the U. S. Biological Survey announced through President Roosevelt that this year, like last, there will be a 30-day open season for duckshooting. Using the Drought as his prime argument, Director Baker had been trying to have duckshooting suspended entirely until the birds can breed up to their oldtime numbers. Using reports from its field agents as evidence, the Survey had concluded that while U. S. breeding areas were affected, Drought had not touched the ducks...
...world's largest automobile concern, runs GM's great research laboratories. From last week's testimony, however, it soon became clear that he is a better inventor than investor. To Mr. Kettering, in the spring of 1930, went two hale fellows, Ralph W. Simonds.of Baker, Simonds & Co. and Luther D. Thomas of Detroit's Fidelity Trust. They and their firms were sponsoring an investment trust called Yosemite Holding Corp. On their recommendation "Boss" Kettering bought through them 40,000 shares of Yosemite...
...Securities & Exchange Commission continues to impress upon news readers the fact that corporation executives make a lot of money. Little has been done to give SEC's flow of fat figures any real business meaning. Most scholarly salary study to date was made by Economist John C. Baker in the Harvard Business Review last winter. Sampling 100 corporations great & small, Economist Baker discovered, among other things, that in 1929 U. S. management salaries averaged 6.6% of earnings, that in the five years through 1932 they averaged 10.8%. Last week, two more salary compilations were published, one calculated to make...