Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly-paid lawyers" of the utility industry's trade association are none other than Democrat Newton Diehl Baker and Republican James Montgomery Beck. Soon after the Grubb ruling last week Edison Electric Institute released a 57-page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley...
...cutting and is now a finished revue with lots to offer to those who are addicted to this hilarious sort of entertainment. As its title would suggest, the show is predicated upon the assumption that lots of varied talent can be welded into pleasing entertainment. Lou Holtz and Phil Baker are well known comedians and with the exception of a very few dull moments are genuinely amusing throughout. Judy Canova and her family of hillbillies provide the high spot of the show's comedy efforts with an amusing skit and a very funny song which brought them long and loud...
George E. Massey, '11, graduate of George Pierce Baker's former 47 Workshop, will direct the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, which will be chosen within the next two days...
WITH all due respect to Happy Bob Benchley, the Baker's Boy, one does get just the trace of an idea that he really is going from Bed to Worse these days. Nonsense combined with satire can be made to be extremely funny and Our Bob, as we used affectionately to call him, was able to make it so in the good old days. But recently one has the feeling that perhaps these depression years are getting him down, if not possibly out. Some of the little bits in the book rally the old savoir to their cause, but there...
...would be difficult to assemble a more impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with...