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Thus spoke Newton Diehl Baker in Manhattan last week before he sailed for Mexico. Less than a fortnight before in a ringing letter to the League of Nations Association, he had passionately appealed for U. S. membership at Geneva. During that fortnight Baker-for-President stock slumped sharply. His second statement disentangling his personal and political views was unmistakable evidence to many observers that Mr. Baker was not as uninterested in the Presidency as he had appeared...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Liberals could be told that as Mayor of Cleveland (1912-16) he carried forward the Reform torch fallen from the hands of the late Tom Johnson, famed tribune of the people who fought for a 3? carfare. The South could be made to remember that Newton Baker's father rode with Jeb Stuart in a company commanded by a Baker cousin and manned by 20 Baker first cousins...
Like Franklin Roosevelt, Newton Baker came under the spell of Wilsonian idealism. Both worked hard for their idol at the hectic Baltimore convention of 1912. Both were rewarded with membership in the Wilson political family. Mr. Baker was first offered the Department of Interior portfolio. He refused it only to accept the War Department post in 1916. His activities as head of the nation's greatest army were last year glowingly described in Newton D. Baker; America at War by Frederick Palmer...
Last week's sale of the "Olive Branch," only signed copy in the U. S., set a new price record for a single item of Americana.† After spirited competition with A. Edward Newton. Charles Sessler of Philadelphia, and Alwin J. Scheuer of New York, who ran the price to $52,000, Gabriel Wells, Manhattan collector and dealer whose Americana is one of the most important in the U. S., bought it for $53,000. Said he: "That will go directly into my safe. You can depend on that...
...Author. Newton Booth Tarkington (no A. B., but honorary A. M. Princeton, 1899; Litt.D. Princeton, 1918; Litt.D. De Pauw, 1923; Litt.D. Columbia, 1924) was born in Indianapolis, Ind. in 1869, owes much to Middle Western authors William Dean Howells. Mark Twain. As a boy he had St. Vitus-like nervous disorders; improved, went to college at Princeton. He returned to live in Indiana, started out as an illustrator. Failing at that he wrote for eight years: his gross returns were $22.50. The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) gave him his start. Penrod (1914) kept him going strong...