Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These ideas, unthinkable in the Baldwin-Chamberlain era, sounded reasonable and good to most Britons last week. Irritation in Conservative circles over what was termed Labor's exploitation of the national crisis to revive social issues was submerged under a wave of popular endorsement. Never before had a T. U. C. conference attracted such wide attention, achieved such prominence in the newspapers. Wrote London's Times: "Here again was the recognition of relations of cooperation for great and common ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults...
...well attended were the meetings of the pinko Church League for Industrial Democracy. Among its speakers were C. I. O. President John L. Lewis, American Youth Congress Chairman Jack McMichael (a lusty young radical now preparing for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...fleets of trucks, Bill Knudsen has doled out $306,411,280 worth of contracts. Chrysler is building a $20,000,000 plant which should be pouring out mediums within a year. American Car & Foundry's pre-defense light-tank assembly line is rolling out five a day, and Baldwin Locomotive is experimenting with some horrendous 50-tonners which some day will come crunching down its assembly line...
Flamboyant, cheeky Son Churchill, an ex-Hearst newsman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, had tried three times previously to become an M. P., but the Baldwin-Chamberlain clique, seeing him merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each attempt. With the "official Conservatives" and competition both out, and his father in at No. 10 Downing Street, it was easy. Adrian Charles Moreing, M. P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, died and Randolph popped up as unopposed candidate in the by-election, was duly elected...
Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin "took over a great empire, supreme in arms and secure in liberty. They conducted it to the edge of national annihilation." Next on the list is Sir Samuel Hoare...