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While waiting to argue a case before the U. S. Supreme Court one day ten years ago, Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was asked if he could suggest a good man for city manager of Cincinnati. The Wartime Secretary of War recommended Lieut. Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, who was then serving as director of the capital's grounds & public buildings by appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer...
Trustee Newton Diehl Baker, who proposed Dr. Bowman, knew him after the War as the chief territorial specialist of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission. Trustee Walter Sherman Gifford (A. T. & T.) had been his classmate at Harvard. The trustees were looking for a young man. Dr. Bowman was 56, but he had the looks of 46, the energy...
...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...