Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benry C. Clark '11 of Cambridge, was reelected Secretary of the Association and G. Storer Baldwin '21, of Boston, a member of the firm of Burr, Gannett and Company, bankers, was reelected Treasurer...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, 44, is a shrewd New York politician who looks like a man-about-town-a very leisurely, prosperous sort of town. Looking at his slick, prematurely grey hair, his invariably dapper dress, or the dapper water colors he paints for relaxation, nobody would think he had ever been an alderman. Still less does he seem a hard-bitten politico with a good liberal record who has beaten Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months...
...death last month of Representative Kenneth Simpson (of Manhattan's famed "silk-stocking" 17th), Republicans picked Joseph Baldwin to run in a special election. Democrats picked liberal Lawyer Dean Alfange. The left wing of the American Labor Party picked Communistic Eugene Connolly, who was handicapped by his following of the corkscrewy party line...
James Farley rushed in to speak for Alfange. President Roosevelt sent him a message of support. Wendell Willkie speaking in a measured voice that made listeners believe he was at last taking speaking lessons, stumped for Joe Baldwin. So did Tom Dewey and Fiorello LaGuardia. The election was a significant test of issues and men that reached far beyond Manhattan. For Republicans it was a test of Willkie's foreign policy, of his ability as a vote-getter for somebody else. For Democrats it was a test of whether or not voters would continue giving unqualified support...
Last week the votes were in: Baldwin, 23,252; Alfange, 16,690; Connolly, 3,985. Next to Joseph Baldwin, the happiest man at this outcome was Wendell Willkie. He was doubly pleased because the trend he had foreseen for the Republican Party seemed confirmed. Joseph Baldwin had won by a bigger percentage than had popular Kenneth Simpson. Isolationists in the Republican Party, who had proclaimed that Willkie's program would bring disaster, had been confounded. Moreover, isolationist strength among Republicans was ebbing. Many a Republican Senator who had been reported ready to fight Willkie for his support for Lend...