Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protégé of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Eden is the son of the late Sir William Eden, seventh holder of a baronetcy dating back to 1672. In World War I he rose from a second lieutenant at 18 to a major at 21. He received the Military Cross, one of the Army's highest awards for gallantry. Winston Churchill called him "the one fresh figure of magnitude" which survived and arose out of the slaughter of Britain's finest young...
...York Times's military commentator Hanson Baldwin suggested last month that military doctors could be stretched further by picking up surgical teams from nonfighting garrisons where they have little to do, rushing them by plane as needed to handle wounded in combat zones...
...reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home. There he was introduced to tall (6 ft. 4), heavy (225 lb.), white-maned George Baldwin McKibbin, State Director of Finance. It was the first time the two had met. Mr. Faherty was politely told that he was being replaced by Mr. McKibbin. (There had, in the meantime, been an all-important telephone call to Colonel McCormick, who apparently approved.) Said George McKibbin later: "Mr. Faherty...
...obstinate man . . . fundamentally weak, he did not even carry out orders when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year of the war and we've hardly tackled our main enemy, Germany...
...interest himself in politics. Cripps joined the Labor Party and, in 1930, came "the luckiest break" of his political life. Ramsay MacDonald's Solicitor General resigned because of illness; Cripps was appointed, in his place and automatically knighted by the King. Conservative Prime Minister-to-be Stanley Baldwin remarked: "Here comes a future Prime Minister...