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Dec 14, 2022 · When businessman Franklin Baker began supplying flour to Cuban merchants, it seemed like he’d landed the worst business deal in history. Forget dollars and cents, the Cubans paid him with a boatload of coconuts.
It all began with a flour miller receiving coconuts as payment from his customer. Today, Franklin Baker has evolved into a global business, supplying world-class quality coconut ingredients to food and beverage manufacturers around the world for over 125 years.
At the core of Franklin Baker are our people; our employees, farmers and workers, working together to create world-class products and a sustainable future for the coconut industry.
On the surface "The Speech of Polly Baker" appears to be a light-hearted and "amusing story". However, Franklin presents a protest against legislation that punished women for out-of-wedlock sexual relations by imposing fines and whippings while the father of the child went without punishment.
Jan 3, 2002 · John Adams, writing to James Warren on April 13, 1783, listed Polly Baker’s Speech as one of Franklin’s many “Outrages to Morality and Decorum.”4 The Abbé Morellet recorded the episode of Franklin and Raynal in his Ana, a systematized commonplace book now in the British Museum.
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It highlighted the important role FDR played as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I and the impact of the war on Eleanor Roosevelt as well as on an extensive network of family, friends, and colleagues.
