Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patronesses are Mrs. Julian L. Coolidge, Mrs. S. P. Baker, Jr., Mrs. James B. Munn, Mrs. Philip P. Chase, Mrs. V. D. Culver, Mrs. B. F. Jones, Mrs. Davis M. DeBard, Mrs. O. G. Bates, and Mrs. T. R. Morse...
While waiting to argue a case before the U. S. Supreme Court one day ten years ago, Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was asked if he could suggest a good man for city manager of Cincinnati. The Wartime Secretary of War recommended Lieut. Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, who was then serving as director of the capital's grounds & public buildings by appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer...
...Sound. His sentence was six years imprisonment, a $2,500 fine. His slim, 43-year-old wife, sentenced to two years and a $500 fine, collapsed in court, was removed to a hospital. Thus ended the swindling career of Seattle's Mr. & Mrs. William Renick, promoters of the Baker Inheritance Associations...
Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
...when the lease expired, no Baker Heir had documents to prove the saga. Mr. & Mrs. Renick of Seattle, by claiming to possess the documents, have lived off one Baker Heir after another. A Glenview, Ill. couple supported the Renicks for ten months before they became suspicious, snooped vainly for the documents, hunted up other victims, finally had the Renicks haled into court on a charge of using the mails to defraud...