Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, since I was a young lawyer, I have wanted to be a judge," Connecticut's big, friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...
...Baldwin had never been altogether happy in Washington. Ever since his election he had been in a frustrating and unsuccessful battle against the built-in conservatives of his own party. He had little leisure, he worried about financial security. Last week Ray Baldwin traded it all for his lifetime ambition and more security...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
...announcement stunned Republicans in Connecticut and Washington. New Dealing Chester Bowles would almost certainly replace Baldwin with a Democrat, thus increasing Democratic strength in the Senate to 55, a majority of seven; at the same time the Republicans would lose their best vote getter in the state. When-Baldwin showed up at a dinner attended by bigwigs of both parties in Hartford last week, he was loudly booed by Republicans...
...Baldwin upheld his raggedly passing team with a smooth performance at attack, but little could be done to with-stand the push of the fast Green and White team...