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...Civiletti swore he did not gather from the first conversation that Eilberg was himself under investigation, and said he did not recall any subsequent conversation with Baker about Eilberg. The contradiction led New York Times Columnist William Safire to draw a harsh conclusion last week: "Ben Civiletti or Tim Baker???one, not both?is telling the truth [and]deserves advancement, while the other ought to be receiving, rather than dishing out, criminal justice." That is an overstatement since there is nothing criminal about forgetting or misunderstanding a conversation, but the episode is at the least prima facie evidence of sloppy...
...Modificationists?Commissioners Lemann & Baker???were for outright repeal...
...easy way to know more about Mr. Baker???or any man?would be to observe his hour-to-hour, day-to-day activities during a typical week in his life?last week for example...
PROGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION?Newton D. Baker???Scribner's ($1.25). Newton Diehl Baker has written a book in which he analyzes progress under the Constitution. The book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours...
...much political dislike. Hoover, Hughes and Root cannot take it, even if they would, because Republicans as a body are against it. Among Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker???who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur?but none of national proportions?none except the rugged, unassuming...