Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut's Raymond E. Baldwin wanted some changes made. So did Illinois' Dwight H. Green. And California's independent Governor Earl Warren got angry when his canned speech arrived in Sacramento just 24 hours before his broadcast. Warren, who goes along with California labor, got a text salted with attacks on "the Earl Browder-Sidney Hillman-Communist-allied Political Action Committee." Warren blue-penciled furiously. In Manhattan, red-faced GOPsters rushed out corrections...
...P.A.C.'s convention headquarters were in two 19th-floor rooms of the Sherman Hotel, filled with red leather chairs and Renoir prints. Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...
...shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF had its first customer: the United Press's Henry T. Gorrell. He said communications from the battlefront were now the best in his nine years' experience as a war correspondent...
...known in the U.S. is the one who has most often criticized U.S. citizens: David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, author of Pravda's recent cracks at Wendell Willkie (TIME, Jan. 17), at William Randolph Hearst for "spilling poisoned ink," at the New York Times's Military Expert Hanson W. Baldwin as "admiral of an ink pool." Zaslavsky, dour and 65, is one of Russia's most prolific and popular writers...
...weeks ago he took off, with New York City's Republican Representative Joseph C. Baldwin, for a quick but intensive look at Britain and North Africa. A short, heavy-set man, he wanted to get into World War II as a flier, but was told he was more valuable in Congress...