Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense...
...encouraged, guided and warned him. She remembered names he forgot, supplied the human touch that was lacking in his personality. Although he was eclipsed for years by his more colorful half-brother Austen, just before Sir Austen's death he rose rapidly. When he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937, the London Star characterized him as "practical as a plumber, precise as a timetable...
...Baldwin, pipe-sucking Willkie stentor, who had actually balanced the State budget during his able administration. He was beaten by Democrat Robert A. Hurley, State Public Works Commissioner, who was running for his first elective office...
...After MacDonald and Baldwin came Chamberlain, who "liked to be called 'British like beef,' " but was really "an eccentric figure behind a disguise of excessive normality." The appeasers were in. "All they wanted was to lay their heads on the block and be left in peace, peace!" Von Ribbentrop came visiting and proselyting. "A wave of political perversion broke over polite society...
Anniversaries. The snug little town of Torrington, Conn., its 200th, which it celebrated with pageant, parade, a speech by Governor Raymond Earl Baldwin; the tight little isle of England, its 874th since invasion and defeat by William (of Normandy) the Conqueror...