Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July the National Economy League was created with Admiral Byrd for temporary chairman. On its advisory committee are Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Newton Diehl Baker, Elihu Root, General Pershing. Admiral Sims. Its broad mission is to force reductions in all governmental expenditures. Its immediate objective is to cut veterans' appropriations. Lobbyist Taylor last month spotted N. E. L. as a real foe, urged "thorough and complete organization if we are to be successful in the future...
...Sept. 15 was announced as the date of the next White House conference on Depression relief. President Hoover will address the National Citizens Committee of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization of 1932, chairmanned by Democrat Newton Diehl Baker, organized to raise funds locally for local relief. Last week the White House was heartened by a statement by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor: 11,400,000 jobless for August which, for once, showed no increase over the month before. Though progressive unemployment might be checked, Mr. Green warned that next winter will be one of "unthinkable suffering...
...When Mr. Hearst picked Speaker Garner as a presidential winner last spring, Mr. McAdoo was his first and only important recruit. Mr. Hearst was as much responsible for the shift play at Chicago resulting in the Roosevelt nomination as Mr. McAdoo. They both feared and hated internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy in the highly colored Hearst news columns. According to this segment of the Press, everything...
...Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Bloch. Pointing out that "under the devoted and skillful guidance of its conductor, it has become a seasoned and matured organization of the highest artistic excellence," a resolution prepared by Newton Diehl Baker provided that the Orchestra Company should be "free to investigate and experiment," to insure the Orchestra's "highest and largest future developments,"-i. e., which will make biggest box office noise. Founder Sokoloff may be retained on some new basis...
First, President Hoover considered in order Owen D. Young, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Newton Diehl Baker, for the Meyer job. For one reason or another none of them was "available." Then dropping a good way down the Democratic list, the President settled on 68-year-old Atlee Pomerene, Ohio lawyer, onetime (1911-23) Senator and co-prosecutor of the Government's oil scandal cases. Mr. Pomerene was sworn in as R. F. C. chairman...