Word: baker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly seemed it would come to that. Despite the protests of organized labor and civil rights groups, Haynsworth's confirmation appeared assured. What brought about the sudden shift in Republican ranks against Haynsworth was the disclosure that he once had a tenuous business connection with Bobby Baker, the former Democratic Senate aide who was convicted of larceny and tax evasion in 1967. Both men invested in a South Carolina real estate deal several years ago, although neither apparently knew the other. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee's anti-Haynsworth faction...
...real estate deal was apparently innocuous and innocent, but Baker's name is enough to frighten most politicians. To some Republicans, Haynsworth's questionable judgment, described by one G.O.P. Senator as not a matter of dishonesty but "ethical opaqueness," combined with Bobby Baker, was too much. No matter what the facts were, they feared that Haynsworth would be condemned by the public...
...Herschel Baker. English Frederick Deknatel. Fine Arts Cornelius Hurlbut, Joseph Manson, Slavic and Applied Physics
While Harvard is playing against some of the local talent today, half of the Ivy League will start league play. The feature at Baker Field in New York will be Columbia and Princeton, but chances are that the majority of the city's sports fans will be part of the living room set since the Mets will be on television...
Scott, who served as G.O.P. national chairman from 1948 to 1949, had been in Congress since 1941-except for two years after he lost an election-and in the Senate since 1959. Baker came to the Hill only in 1967, after he was elected Senator. Another element favoring Scott was the fact that his elevation would leave open the whip's post, which was coveted by several of his colleagues. "I got hit," said Baker afterward, "by a double bugaboo-the seniority system and the proliferation of whip candidates." Scott won by 24 to 19-the precise vote...