Word: bakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who like to draw spiderweb charts in support of the theory that U. S. industry is banker-dominated, a possible starting point might be No. 2 Wall Street, home of Manhattan's First National, the "Baker Bank." A list of the late, famed George Fisher Baker's directorships included a choice slice of U. S. industry. Since the old banker died in 1931 at the age of 91 the Baker seats have been filled by George Fisher Baker Jr., now 58. As tight-lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations...
...making a few ideas go far, no modern religionist has ever rivaled Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, shrewd founder of Christian Science. She repeatedly worried her remarkable work, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, revising it indefatigably, issuing one edition after another. Each edition differed enough from the last so that no Christian Scientist could afford to be without it. Last week when 6,000 of Mrs. Eddy's followers gathered in Boston for Mother Church's annual one-day meeting, Science & Health was clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list...
...Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served on Wilson's War Industries Board and on Roosevelt's first National Labor Board...
Though Messrs. Baker, Douglas & Wolman had chosen the burden of their platform from the current and historic tenets of both major parties, it was soon evident they had pleased neither. No Republican leader spoke up to praise them. On behalf of the Administration, Senator Minton of Indiana sneered: "My idea of a platform would be one to repudiate Newton Baker rather than the New Deal...
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Newton Diehl Baker................. D.C.L. John Clyde Hostetter, Research Director of Corning Glass Works, for his part in the production of California Institute of Technology's 200-in. glass telescope reflector (TIME, March 23)............................... D.Sc...