Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They recalled that Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, had said: "Why, I wouldn't hesitate a minute to make MacArthur Chief of Staff notwithstanding his youth. And I predict he will be. . . ." President Hoover last week commented: "There are several very eminent generals who rank General MacArthur, but none of them could serve more than a year and a half of the full term...
Died. Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel (with Newton Diehl Baker) for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the projected Youngstown-Bethlehem steel merger ; despondent over litigation against the merger (TIME, March 24 et seq.) and the strain of negotiations; by his own hand; at Youngstown, Ohio. Court was declared adjourned until July 8 "for good and sufficient reasons." Declared David G. Jenkins, trial judge: "A valuable piece in the chess game [has been] removed from the board. So far as the law suit is concerned and cold as it may seem to say it, the contest must...
...railroad president, he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began railroading in 1868 as a rodman. He worked for many a road in the East and South, in 1909 became president of the C. G. W. Appointed Wartime director-general of military railroads by Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, he supervised the shipping of men to the Atlantic seaboard, of railroad supplies to Europe. received the Distinguished Service Medal. the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He lived with his son-in-law, Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime secretary- treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
...Decoration Day the president of W. & L. must bear in mind his alumni who enlisted in a body in '61 as the Liberty Hall Volunteers, taking the name of one of the institution's early titles. The board of trustees to whom he is accountable includes Democrats Newton Diehl Baker and John William Davis...