Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early Monday afternoon four Boy Scouts, part of a volunteer army which was scouring the countryside, stumbled into a deep gully about two miles back from the road in the Baldwin Hills. There in weeds as high as a man's head, her face pushed into the dirt, a clothesline tight around her cold little neck was the lifeless body of one of the girls, ravished and murdered. In the bushes a few yards away, similiarly strangled and raped, were the bodies of the others. As the horrible news of California's crime-of-the-year spread through...
...Both Baldwin and MacDonald, the two former Premiers, regarded themselves as Chairmen of the Cabinet Committee. They gave advice, smoothed out difficulties-and let the Department heads get on with the job. They never interfered with the internal affairs of a Department...
Last week King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...
Died. Right Rev. James Edward Cowell Welldon, 83, onetime (1898-1902) Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish -nay, even to flog-a rebellious Winston Churchill...
...about the time when the former Prime Minister was doing his stopping and starting turn in the aisle of the House of Lords, 62-year-old Arthur Annis was found dead in his London office. He had been political agent for the Conservative Association of Bewdley, had managed Stanley Baldwin's election campaigns in that constituency for 28 years. Day prior. Arthur Annis had remarked to a friend: "When you lose your boss after 28 years you realize you're getting...