Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change the rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...Newton Diehl Baker LL.D...
...Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang manfully. Chairman Snell rapped...
...good compromise candidate. The only favorite son who seemed available for whatever backroom conference is called to break a deadlock was Maryland's Governor Ritchie. Friendly with Governor Roosevelt, he was liked by the Brown Derby. Mark Sullivan, oldtime convention observer, predicted that of all the dark horses Newton Diehl Baker was "the most probable nominee" if Smith stopped Roosevelt. Last week Mr. Baker, attending his daughter's graduation from Sarah Lawrence college at Bronxville, N. Y. where he delivered the commencement address, declared: "I'm not a candidate. My hat is as far from the ring as it ever...
...names of the Seniors winning Summas are: Moses Abramovitz of Brooklyn, New York; John Barton Appelbaum of New York City; Garrett Birkhoff of Cambridge; Harold Leslie Bisbee of Milton; Jacob Canter of Newton; Frank Gilchrist of Bronxville, New York; Henry Adams Morss, Jr. of Boston; David Henry Popper of White Plains, New York; James Sloss of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. of Evansville, Indiana; James Wallerstein of White Plains, New York; William Barry Wood, Jr. of Milton; and Paul Maurice Zoll of Roxbury...