Word: barre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is much eagerness among Mr. Hoover's "assistants" for appointment as Secretary to the President. The main aspirants are George Akerson, Lawrence Richey, George Barr Baker. If the House agrees to the Senate's increase, Mr. Hoover will be able to care for all three-Akerson as alter ego; Baker as White House Spokesman; Richey as factfinder...
...James Barr Ames (1846-1910) became assistant professor of Law in 1873. Professor in 1877, Bussey Professor in 1879, and Dane Professor in 1903. In 1895 he succeeded Langdell as Dean. The time when he with Gray and Thayer were teaching at the school under Langdell is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
...steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped from 16,000 words per day to about...
...work in that line under Hoover. He is usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...short pass from California's big Barr to Eisan beat Washington...