Mr, Baker attained high rank in his profession. He was one of the leading counsel in the famous steel merger battle of the Youngstown Sheet Tube Company, representing those who favoured the merger with the Bethlehem Steel Company.
He also was counsel for the Lake Qarriers' Association and took a leading part in opposing diversion of water from the Great Lakes through Chicago's sanitary canal to the Mississippi.
Part in Mobilization part in mobilization for wat told authoritatively in "Newton D. Baker; America at War," written by Col. Frederick Palmer, war corres-pendent and A.E.E. staff officer and Punished in 1931.
Col. Palmer, with access to Baker's private correspondence, gave credit to the wartime secretary and President Wilson for the American policy of sending an autonomous American army into Europe instead of reinforcements recruited to replace shattered regiments ju allied divisions.
Always conducting himself with democrate simplicity, the story was told of Baker while he was Cleveland's "Boy Mayor" that dignified visitors often were surprised to find him shining his own shoes in his office.
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