Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Issue. Has F. P. C. authority over plants to be built on non-navigable streams under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal Government? Onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, as attorney for Appalachian, argued it had no such power while Huston Thompson, onetime Federal Trade Commissioner, as F. P. C. attorney, argued that...
...President-elect learned that he could not crook his finger and get the ready services of his party's first & foremost. Much mentioned before election but not to be found on last week's slate were the national names of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Owen D. Young, Newton Diehl Baker, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Carter Glass. Even his two ranking Cabinet officers Mr. Roosevelt had to "draft" (his own word) into Federal service...
Chief Grace Abbott of the U. S. Children's Bureau believes 80% of the nation's homeless are minors. Newton Diehl Baker's Welfare & Relief Mobilization last autumn reported 200,000 wandering youths...
There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed...
Died. John J. Carty, 71, telephone & telegraph engineer; of heart trouble following an operation; in Baltimore. Wartime director of the U. S. Army's independent telegraph & telephone system in France, post-War vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he was titled by Newton Diehl Baker "the greatest expert in America on the subject of telegraphic and telephonic communications." In 1915 he completed the first U. S. transcontinental telephone service, provoking Dr. John Huston Finley's poem...