Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President Wilson, has definitely accepted an invitation to speak at the Union at a meeting to be open to all members of the University, some time in January. John W. Davis, candidate for President in the 1924 campaign, and Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana are among other probable speakers, and former Governor W. E. Sweet of Colorado may be here some time this week to discuss possible issues for next year's political foray William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury, has also been invited to appear under the auspices...
...mildest delegates was onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (see POLITICAL NOTES below), who spoke of the U. S. prison population as "just a part of our common citizenship that has been found wanting and taken away." Convicts, he said, are "part of ourselves" and in evolving methods for their rehabilitation "we are dealing with a long procession of men and women who at present are babes in arms; who, as the revolving years come on, are quite certain, under the deadly percentages which the criminologists are beginning to establish ... to lead lives of crime." Mr. Baker...
...small man and a quiet man, but Washington, D. C., always takes notice when Newton D. Baker comes to town. Last week Mr. Baker was there for three days, to attend sessions of the National Crime Commission. (See CRIME col. 1). He presided over that section of the commission which studies social, educational and industrial conditions to discover crime preventives. Also he functioned, as no one else can, as toastmaster at the commission's banquet...
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...
...Number 20 through Watertown, Waltham, Weston, Wayland, Northboro, Worcester, Leicester, Brookfield, Warren, Palmer and Springfield to a point just north of Southwick. Turn left here and go south through Granby and Simsbury to Farmington. Drive on Connecticut Highway Routh Number 3, from Farmington, through Southington, Milldate, Watelbury, Southbury and Newton into Danbury...