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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Repercussions | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Currently headed by Roger Williams Straus, good Jew, Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes of Columbia University, good Catholic, and, until his death last week (see p. 41), by the late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hatchet Buriers | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...recent dinner, Wartime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was shocked to see two graduates of unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man) forthwith appealed against the bad manners of recent college graduates. Last week Western Reserve's downtown unit, Cleveland College, announced that at Mr. Baker's suggestion it was establishing a class in "The Technique of Social and Business Intercourse." The course's laboratory: teas and dinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Joseph A. Locke, Jr., Newton Centre, Mass.; Wesley H. Lowell, Jr., Holden, Mass; Joseph P. Lyford, Wilton, Conn.; Denis J. Maguire, Brockton, Mass.; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr., Hinsdale, Ill.; George P. Mayhew, West Roxbury, Mass.; Elbert M. Moffatt, Jr., Bombay, India; Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Fla.; Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Baltimore, Md.; David P. Oakes, Seattle, Fla.; Charles H. Oldfather, Lincoln, Neb.; Melvin Pollard, Dorchester, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPPERCLASSMEN GIVEN AID TOTALING $3000 | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

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