Word: bakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, President Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation...
...John Baker of Dudley, House 155 pound champion, easily added the 155 pound University title to his laurels by whipping Cyril Devery of Kirkland. Knocked through the ropes in the third round, Devery hung on to finish out the fight...
...pound class: Baker vs. Devery...
...class in the number of entrants was the 155 pound division, boasting nine men including newly crowned House champion Johnny Baker of Dudley. There are five men competing at both 145 and 165, and four...
...Class also picked ten committee-men-at-large: Charles D. Baker of Kirkland House and Freeport, New York; Lynn W. Eley of Kirkland House and Zearing, Ohio; Brantley Harris of Winthrop House and Galveston, Texas; Boyd Higgins of Kirkland House and Indian-apolis; Donald B. Louria of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, New York...