Word: baldwin
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Died. Countess Baldwin of Bewdley. seventyish, motherly, speechifying wife of Britain's ex-Prime Minister Stanley Bald win (they met at the home of his cousin...
...longest Parliament,* and one of her most momentous, passed into history last week. It had sat for nearly ten years (Nov. 14, 1935, to June 15, 1945). It had passed 556 bills and 11,902 statutory rules and orders. It had been led by three Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...
...week's end, SHAEF revealed that a double rode in General Eisenhower's four-starred automobile in France last winter. Lieut. Colonel Baldwin B. Smith of Chicago, who bears a striking resemblance to the Supreme Commander, volunteered as a decoy after Army Intelligence heard rumors of a German assassination plot...
Albert E. Baldwin--Cathic Horn (Simmons...