Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized by Colonel Herman Beukema, professor of economics, government and history at West Point (see p. 56), the new educational program will run for two months, enable soldiers to hear such observers as Raymond Clapper, Hanson W. Baldwin, Carl Crow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Since part of the course will be a day-to-day interpretation of current events, maps are being installed in soldiers' day rooms on which shifting battles can be checked and charted...
...York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin set himself to answer. "The Pacific Fleet," said he, "is not capable of conducting a major foray today against Japan." He added guardedly: "Of one thing we can be sure-the Navy is not idle." This reassurance would have carried more force if Mr. Baldwin had not promptly followed it with another: "We can lose this war. . . . Far too few of us understand that. . . ." Confusion was confounded when the Navy posted a bulletin in Pearl Harbor. It read: "The United States Navy is still supreme...
...Winston Churchill on Stanley Baldwin: "Stanley occasionally stumbles over the truth, but he always hastily picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened...
Among members of the committee sponsoring the convention are: William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...
...time for a new war, the best heavy tank in the world was unveiled at Eddystone, near Philadelphia, this week. A joint product of Baldwin Locomotive Works and U.S. Army Ordnance, it weighs 57 tons, is heavily armored with welded and cast plate. Its contours are rounded to deflect hits, and even its traction gear is protected by steel. Its turrets are power driven, its silhouette cut down. It totes a three-inch double-purpose anti-tank & aircraft gun, powerful enough to stop any tank in existence, is equipped with a secret device, which gives its gunners 500% more accuracy...