Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpeg the price of wheat in France. Zump!-the price dropped from a fictitious pegged price of $2.01 per bu. to $1.44. In stern orders to prefects all over France, Premier Flandin demanded and largely achieved last week a nationwide cut of about 12% in the price of baker's bread...
...Busy though he was all week with the job of whipping his 1936 budget into shape for Congress, President Roosevelt found time to have oldtime Democrat Newton D. Baker to lunch at the White House. The Wartime Secretary of War was there not as a Party man but as an attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson...
...Phil Baker, the apotheosis of Broadway sophistication, in his old routine of being heckled from a box. In the box this time is loud Lou Holtz, the most ribald and impertinent comedian in the business...
...Baker: Well, tell me, in the play Hamlet, was Hamlet having an affair with Ophelia...
Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad...