Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were employing minstrel technique for a definite purpose- to kindle tolerance and goodwill among their respective faiths. Called the "Tolerance Trio," they were embarked last week on a Southern tour under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a body jointly chair-manned by Protestant Newton Diehl Baker, Jew Roger Williams Straus and Catholic Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes. The first Tolerance Trio went out in the autumn of 1933, traveled 9,000 miles, visited 38 cities. The current trio is composed...
Double-Header. Delayed two hours by the crush of holiday travel, pack-jammed with mail & passengers, including onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...highly-paid lawyers" of the utility industry's trade association are none other than Democrat Newton Diehl Baker and Republican James Montgomery Beck. Soon after the Grubb ruling last week Edison Electric Institute released a 57-page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley...
...Federal Building in South Bend, Ind., the process of spraying soft soap through a nozzle and having it dry before it falls engaged the million-dollar attention of a battalion of lawyers who represented four-fifths of the entire U. S. soap business. Brilliant Newton Diehl Baker led the mass-attack of Procter & Gamble (Ivory Snow) and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet (Supersuds) against Lever Brothers Co. (Rinso) for alleged infringement of patents...
...face of these stark facts that some 200 civic leaders and social workers gathered in Washington last week to launch the Fourth Mobilization for Human Needs, super-campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based...