Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Military Expert Hanson Baldwin suggested an even more immediate question: "The Nazis are clinging tenaciously to the important strong points. And the weeks of winter are now numbered...
...spoke of the "general smugness of the American people." "In too many instances," said Connecticut's Senator Maloney, "our people are concluding that the war is won and that there is no great danger or difficulty ahead." Yes, said the New York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin, "we are slothful with fat pride...
...Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says: "It don't seem right." Nor does the caddy ever get the piano stool adjusted to suit Iturbi: "Wherever...
...this year should honor something more than financial generosity and conformity to tradition. The honorary degree is only a symbolism, but men live and die for symbols. Any Senior could draw up a list of men worthy of sitting on the Graduation platform this June: from Harvard alumni Roger Baldwin '05 of the Civil Liberties League, and Sumner Welles '13. From education, Charles Beard and Robert Morss Lovett, neither of whom has ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin...
Harte is president of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association, president of the Ames Baldwin Wyoming Company, and a director of several charitable institutions and industrial companies. He has formerly served as president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Director of the National Association of Manufacturers. Director of National Industrial Conference Board...