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    Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (December 3, 1871 – December 25, 1937) was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th...
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    Newton D. Baker House, also known as Jacqueline Kennedy House, is a historic house at 3017 N Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built in 1794, it was home...
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  • BakerHostetler is an American law firm founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I, and...
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  • Camp Newton D. Baker was a United States Army post located near El Paso, Texas. The post was in operation from 1916 to 1920. It was used as a mobilization...
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  • SS Newton D. Baker was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Newton D. Baker, a lawyer, the 37th Mayor of...
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    Methodist University. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2024. Leopold, J.D. (10 April 2007). "Gen. George W. Casey Jr. Becomes Army Chief of Staff"....
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    Representatives gave him a standing ovation and he met Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and the President's secretary Joe Tumulty, as President Wilson was...
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    battle was erected in Martinsburg in 1925. During World War II, the Newton D. Baker Hospital in Martinsburg treated thousands of soldiers wounded in the...
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    ex officio members the Secretaries of: State (Robert Lansing), War (Newton D. Baker), and the Navy (Josephus Daniels). The CPI was the first state bureau...
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    control of the Army Air Service at the behest of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. Due to its location in the center of the harbor, where the water was...
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  • disregard the issue. Raskob urged Smith and other democrats (such as Newton D. Baker) to enter the race in order to block Roosevelt. A red-faced Smith furiously...
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    1928, Tolson was confidential secretary for three Secretaries of War: Newton D. Baker, John W. Weeks, and Dwight F. Davis. He completed a Bachelor of Arts...
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    the Army Air Corps," better known as the "Baker Board." Chaired by former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, the board's announced mission was to examine...
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    Wilson, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and the Southern Democratic Party with its "separate but equal" philosophy. Baker was cognizant of the many...
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    (25) Confederate States Secretary of War http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:7:./temp/~ammem_WqlO:: [bare URL][dead link] "Papers of the War Department"...
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  • Brazilian footballer Newton D. R. Allen (died 1927), American politician Newton D. Baker, American lawyer and politician Newton Cloud (1804–1877), American...
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    candidates: Henry Tureman Allen, retired Major general from Washington, D.C. Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War from Ohio John T. Barnett, president of...
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    (1863–1941) (PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 2008) online Craig, Douglas B. Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863–1941...
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    Doolittle was selected to be a member of the Baker Board. Chaired by former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, the board was convened during the Air Mail...
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    Presidential Elections 1789–2008 (10th edition, 2009) Craig, Douglas. "Newton D. Baker and the Democratic Malaise, 1920–1937." Australasian Journal of American...
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    connection, but moved to Washington, D.C. as Special Adviser of Black Affairs to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. Scott was the highest-ranking African-American...
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    Newton D. Baker, President of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor. With Newton D....
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    European Allies, which Lippmann had been shown by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. Lippmann's task, according to House, was "to take the secret treaties...
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    rushed through Congress in only two days so that Secretary of War Newton D. Baker could hand Pershing his new commission as soon as he arrived from France...
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    sentences of 20 years in Fort Leavenworth. In 1918 Secretary of War Newton D. Baker created the Board of Inquiry to question the conscientious objectors'...
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    President of the United States/Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces Newton D. Baker – US Secretary of War Josephus Daniels – US Secretary of the Navy Major...
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  • speakers include Scottish statesman John Buchan, the politicians Newton D. Baker and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the diplomat Sumner Welles. In 1991, Milton...
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    World War I. The Wound Ribbon was established by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker on September 6, 1917, and implemented by Paragraph XI-1 of War Department...
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    a full delegation of authority from Wilson and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. Baker, cognizant of the endless problems of domestic and allied political...
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    shortly after the United States entered World War I, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker said: These boys are going to France. I want them adequately armed...
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