Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five, which have gone through a number of changes in ownership, now are: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. (founded by two missionaries' sons); C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. (founded by a New England trader, James Hunnewell); Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. (founded by Theophilus Davies, of England); American Factors, Ltd. (founded by Captain Henry Hackfeld of Germany); and Castle & Cooke, Ltd. (founded by missionaries...
...20th Century's "most English of the English" was really half Celt (on his mother's side)-and made a point of saying so when he was among Scots. "I remember that in my early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were...
...Stanley Baldwin was born Aug. 3, 1867 in Wilden, Worcestershire, the town where his great-grandfather in the late 18th Century had started the family fortune by building an iron foundry. Baldwin's nurse, to assure his success, climbed to the attic with the newborn baby, stood on a chair, and raised him toward the roof...
...Baldwin stated, "Many do not think that you can reconcile capitalism and democracy--and there is a lot to be said on their side." He added that democratic-socialism may well be the bulwark of human liberties and should Britain's experiment fail, chances of democracy in the world would be greatly dimmed...
Expanding on this remark, Baldwin digressed to a criticism of American foreign policy on the ground that supporting reactionary governments rather than "middle-of-the-road" forces is a fundamental error that manufactures a previously non-existent Communist threat in those countries...