Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather served to publicize a new word: humiture. The invention of a 38-year-old official of Manhattan's National City Bank, Osborne Fort Hevener, it was first used by his friend Frank L. Baldwin in the weather column of the Newark Evening News. Humiture is a combination of temperature and humidity, computed by adding the readings for both and dividing by two. Weathermen called it a "fool word" but according to Mr. Hevener (who last week escaped the humiture by motoring to Quebec) this figure "gives the man in the street a better index of the summertime torture...
Only one Briton, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, has $1,250,000 to administer at his discretion for the purpose of drawing the Mother Country and other parts of the British Commonwealth even more closely together. This huge sum was given by an anonymous British donor as a thank offering for Mr. Baldwin's masterly success in keeping Mrs. Simpson off the throne of England. For some time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl...
...Paris political wisecrackers, recalling that Stanley Baldwin four years ago asserted that Britain's air frontier is the Rhine, chuckled that Chamberlain had moved the British frontier from the Rhine to the Danube...
...important, to U. S. exporters who wish to sell capital goods to foreigners who lack cash. Sample deal took place year ago when China bought 20 locomotives and equipment with credits of $1,500,000, half supplied by the Export-Import Bank, half by American Locomotive Sales Corp. and Baldwin Locomotive Works. Despite the war, China has punctually met all payments on this debt, as have virtually all the bank's creditors. Up to last week they had already paid back $29,191,254.32 on total loans...
...always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried on systematic campaigns against English politicians in the past, native good nature suffused his drawings of them: Eden always looked timid and well-meaning; Squire Baldwin crafty and battered but not dangerous; Lloyd George disarmingly arch and jolly even when, by Cartoonist Low's lights, he was up to no good. There is no such warmth in Low's caricatures of Chamberlain. His overhanging eyebrows matching the steep curve of his mustache, his cadaverous features...