But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

Both Baker and Fosdick knew that a substitute was necessary, that a verboten approach was not the real answer.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

Baker was discovered in 1818 by Captain Elisha Folger of the Nantucket whaling ship Equator, who called the island " New Nantucket ".

In August 1825 Baker was resighted by Captain Obed Starbuck of the Loper, also a Nantucket whaler.

LORAN station Baker was a radio operations base in operation from September 1944 to July 1946.

Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the first-born child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both of English and Puritan descent.

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

* Robert F. Vasa ( born 1951 ), Bishop of Baker

* July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary ( born in Playden, East Sussex, England ) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau on Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the last missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.

* Ginger Baker ( born 1939 ), rock drummer with Cream and Blind Faith

Astaire was married for the first time in 1933, to the 25-year-old Phyllis Potter ( née Phyllis Livingston Baker ; born 1908, died September 13, 1954 ), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III ( 1906 – 1981 ), after pursuing her ardently for roughly two years, and despite the objections of his mother and sister.

* Beverly Baker Fleitz ( born 1930 ), American tennis player

The DJ and music journalist Danny Baker also lived near the Crossfield Estate, where he was born and brought up.

* Mary Baker Eddy ( 1821 – 1910 ), founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist ; born in Bow

* Dan Baker ( born 1946 ), sports announcer for the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Phillies.

Mary Morse Baker was born in Bow, New Hampshire, the youngest of six children of Abigail and Mark Baker.

* Enrique Marcatili ( born 1925 ), winner of the IEEE's Baker Prize and pioneer in optical fiber research.

* Actor Joe Don Baker was born in Groesbeck in 1936.

He was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery.

Kenneth George " Kenny " Baker ( born 24 August 1934 ) is a British actor and musician, best known as the man inside R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series.

Thomas Stewart " Tom " Baker ( born 20 January 1934 ) is an English actor.

Baker was born in Scotland Road, Liverpool, England.

Peter Edward " Ginger " Baker ( born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London ) is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith.

Colin Baker ( born 8 June 1943 ) is a British actor, who is best known as Paul Merroney ( 1974-76 ) in The Brothers and as the 6th incarnation ( 1984-86 ) of The Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to Rochdale with his family early in his life.

She was born Delores LaVern Baker in Chicago, Illinois.

Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township.