Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, TIME considers Socialist Thomas sufficiently distinguished to need no designation. Also undesignated in "Kudos." for the same reason, were: Newton Diehl Baker, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Samuel Seabury. Owen D. Young...
Carmen was the best show in Cleveland's opera week. Newton Diehl Baker was lustily applauded when he entered. (Later an alert observer saw him pay for some punch with an old-fashioned big $1 bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience...
...change the rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...Newton Diehl Baker LL.D...
...good compromise candidate. The only favorite son who seemed available for whatever backroom conference is called to break a deadlock was Maryland's Governor Ritchie. Friendly with Governor Roosevelt, he was liked by the Brown Derby. Mark Sullivan, oldtime convention observer, predicted that of all the dark horses Newton Diehl Baker was "the most probable nominee" if Smith stopped Roosevelt. Last week Mr. Baker, attending his daughter's graduation from Sarah Lawrence college at Bronxville, N. Y. where he delivered the commencement address, declared: "I'm not a candidate. My hat is as far from the ring as it ever...