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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington particularly noticed Baker last week because, in all the talk about Democratic Presidential candidates, his name had been conspicuously inconspicuous. Yet if there is anyone in the late Woodrow Wilson's party who was not a dark horse it was Newton D. Baker. Dark horses trot out of obscurity. Newton D. Baker, though small and quiet, is one of the least obscure and most distinguished men of his time...
Wednesday and Thursday. Crime Commission meetings. Made a speech (see p. 14) and introduced other speakers at the banquet. Entrained for Cleveland late that night...
...That evening, political meeting?mostly Poles, a people Mr. Baker knows well?about whether or not Cleveland should revert to mayoralty form of government or retain the city-manager plan. Favored city-manager plan, though twice (1912-14; 1914-16) Mayor of Cleveland himself. Quoted his political godfather, the late Tom L. Johnson: "If you'll get a tent and talk sensibly to the people, they'll respond?they'll do what's right?and they can always be trusted to do it." Also said: "I don't think Mayor Thompson [of Chicago] is the most ignorant...
...conspiracy of Albert Bacon Fall and Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Oct. 31) moved through its second week in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the presiding jurist, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, became more & more an object of public interest. Justice Siddons is a great-grandson of the late Actress Sarah Kemble Siddons. Concerning himself he says: "In my youth I thought my choice of a life's work would be either journalism or the stage. But fate decreed that I should become a lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have happened...
...late as 100 years ago a burial in Westminster Abbey could be obtained for as little...