Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few weeks ago the President had tried to clear up this situation by the appointment of State Department "area directors," responsible to OFEC. The first were ex-OCD Director James M. Landis, assigned to the Middle East, and Calvin B. Baldwin, assigned to Italy. Now the area directors will be Leo Crowley's eyes & ears in the field, will represent U.S. interests in economic operations abroad...
...Thorpe the best all-around athlete of all time? No, not versatile enough. Babe Didrikson? Runner-up, perhaps. Well, who was? Harris Baldwin Fisher Jr., said Grantland Rice, and he wrote a column last week to prove it. Even the unconvinced would have to admit that Grant Rice's surprise selection was worth arguing...
...Cherubic Calvin Benham ("Beanie") Baldwin, protege of Henry Wallace, began working at Farm Security Administration (then Resettlement Administration), in 1935. He spent $1½ billion trying to put 1½ million indigent U.S. farm families on their feet...
...Beanie Baldwin's new title is Area Director of Economic Operations in Italy. Last week he said he had no notion of: 1) the Italian language, 2) the approximate date he would sail, 3) the exact duties of his new job, 4) his staff...
Next year he announced that he was "too old and too busy to continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve...