Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union, fostered a straw vote in which 11,000,000 Britons balloted pro-League. This should have presaged a Labor victory at the next British General Election, since the Labor Opposition has always been pro-League and the Conservatives lukewarm or cold to Geneva. Instead Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin turned the straw votes into Conservative ballots by casting handsome young Anthony Eden spectacularly in the role of the League's Galahad, defender of Ethiopia, had the late King George V dissolve Parliament and order an election at exactly the psychological moment (TIME. Nov. 25, 1935, et ante). With...
Charles D. Aldrich '40, Wollaston; Josef Alexander '38, Brighton; Gordon B. Allan '38, W. Medford; Dion J. J. Archen '40, Lynn; Frederic S. Armstrong, Jr. '39, Weymouth; Leon W. Baldwin '40, Somerville; Edmund W. Hanas '39, Holyoke; Bernard Barber '39, Cambridge; Clarence H. Barber '40, Arlington; Abraham N. Barger '39, Greenfield; David S. Berkowitz '38, South Boston; Christoph F. W. Berliner '40, Weston; Melvin B. Black '40, Roxbury; Edward B. Blackman '38, Roxbury...
...employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded, only adverse scores being when the Ritzes play. On the eve of the Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally, has him declared ineligible. Chief Indian-baiter Bob Hayner (Dick Baldwin) is suspected of informing on the star, but plays heads-up football, clears himself of suspicion after the Ritzes clinch the victory, and regains the favor of the coach's daughter (Gloria Stuart...
...series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...published in 1919, suggesting that Britons voluntarily contribute 20% of their capital wealth to the Government to help it out of its post-War hole. The letter was signed F. S. T. but few Britons figured out that the author was the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stanley Baldwin, more recently Prime Minister, today a venerable, bumbling peer...