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.

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.

An example of involuntary commitment procedures is the Baker Act used in Florida.

* Baker Act

* Baker Act Reporting Center ( related to Florida's Civil Commitment Statute )

In the United States, Florida's Baker Act allows law enforcement and the judiciary to force mental evaluation for those suspected of suffering from dementia or other mental incapacities.

Baker also writes that fraud by false representation is the offence that will do most of the work in the 2006 Act.

On 1 July 1910, the GNP & BR and the other UERL-owned tube railways ( the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ) were merged, by private Act of Parliament, to become the London Electric Railway Company.

Among the cases he was involved with were Baker v. Carr, which set the constitutional standards for reapportionment ; Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, which set a precedent by recognizing the Constitution's authorization for federal laws requiring desegregation of public accommodations for African-Americans ; and South Carolina v. Katzenbach, which upheld the Voting Rights Act.

* On Friday 20 April 2007, a Private Member's Bill aimed at exempting Members of Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act was ' talked out ' by a collection of MPs, led by Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes and Norman Baker who debated for 5 hours, therefore running out of time for the parliamentary day and ' sending the bill to the bottom of the stack.

To promote greater safety in pools and spas, Nancy Baker gave testimony to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and James Baker helped form an advocacy group, which led to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool And Spa Safety Act ( 15 USC 8001 ).

54-55 Coroners and Justice Act 2009 also removed sexual infidelity as a qualifying form of provocation, but in a recent controversial decision by Lord Judge in R v Clinton 1 Cr App R 26 in the Court of Appeal, Lord Judge interpreted the new offence as allowing for sexual infidelity to count under the third prong of the new defence ( see Baker & Zhao 2012 ).

Baker notes that it is almost impossible to prove an absence of consent in cases where an intoxicated person was too intoxicated to communicate their consent ; and that the new presumptions found in sections 75-76 of the Sexual Offences Act are unable to resolve this problem, which is in the end not one of an absence of consent, but an issue of whether D had reasonable grounds for believing consent was present.

Baker is a moderate-to-liberal Republican who is known for her health care legislation, known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was co-sponsored by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democrat.

As far back as 1947 the Government's Baker Report accepted the need for a bypass, and provision was made in the 1949 New Forest Act to construct roads through the forest with the consent of the Verderers.

Baker and Nietzel point out a popular phenomenon that began with Collins's first book: " Act of Fear ... inspired the by-now monotonous chant by critics about each new hard-boiled author being ' the best since Hammett ,' ' the new Chandler ,' and ' the heir to Ross Macdonald.

Howard Baker was a leading sponsor of an amendment to the Endangered Species Act that was passed into law in November 1978.

Baker then drafted an amendment that excluded the Tellico project from the Endangered Species Act, along the lines initially suggested by the federal courts.

Her accident led to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, which was approved by the United States Congress and imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale or distribution of drain covers that don't meet anti-entrapment safety standards.

* Baker Act, common alternate name for the Florida Mental Health Act

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

While teaching at MIT, Aalto also designed the student dormitory, Baker House, completed in 1948.

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

The following identity (" Hadamard Lemma ") involving nested commutators, underlying the Campbell – Baker – Hausdorff expansion of log ( expA expB ), is also useful:

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

Jarvis Island was reclaimed by the United States government and colonized from 26 March 1935 onwards, under the Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme ( see also Howland Island and Baker Island ).

During Minor Threat's inactive period, Brian Baker also briefly played guitar for Government Issue and appeared on the Make an Effort EP.

Mount Baker ( Lummi: Qwú ’ mə Kwəlshéːn ; Nooksack: Kw ’ eq Smaenit or Kwelshán ), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.

It is also one of the snowiest places in the world ; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season —.

Their production work as BeMusic was collected on two LTM compilation CDs, Cool As Ice: The BeMusic Productions and Twice As Nice ( which also included production work by Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio, and Arthur Baker ).

Whitehouse also claimed to have a soft spot for Everton when asked on the Danny Baker radio show broadcast on Saturday 13 February 2010 to describe his childhood bedroom Whitehouse responded by saying " There's an Everton and Tottenham poster on the wall.

It also played a central role in the development of the musical style later referred to as Piedmont blues ; indeed, much of the music played by such artists of the genre as Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker, could be referred to as " ragtime guitar.

The Sontarans also appeared in a skit for the BBC children's programme Jim'll Fix It titled " A Fix with Sontarans ", along with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.

It stars Gregory Peck, who also co-produced the film with Wyler, plus Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors.

As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.

Other major corporations based in Memphis include Allenberg Cotton, American Residential Services ( also known as ARS / Rescue Rooter ), Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Cargill Cotton, First Horizon National Corporation, Evergreen Packaging, Fred's, GTx, Guardsmark, Lenny's Sub Shop, Perkins Restaurant and Bakery, Pinnacle Airlines, ServiceMaster, Thomas & Betts, True Temper Sports, Varsity Brands, and Verso Paper.

Baker also asserts that it is only the harm-doer who should be criminalized ; not the harm-receiver.

Equipment during these years had also improved ; new Marshall amplifier stacks cranked out more power, and Jack Bruce pushed the volume levels higher, creating tension for Baker who would have trouble competing with roaring stacks.

The stars of the film were George Baker, Stanley Baker, Harry Andrews and Michael Medwin, with Stephen Boyd and Ronald Lewis, and Robert Shaw also had a small part.

* Arthur Baker-Art Baker is one of the first Walkers to befriend Garraty during the Long Walk and is also one of the Musketeers.

According to the The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT ( also known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane ), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries ; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.