Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children and 210 of 316 adults, some of them refugees from German concentration camps. Among the dead were Rudolf Olden, onetime anti-Hitler editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; Dr. Gallinsky, new Chargé d'Affaires of the Polish Embassy in Washington; Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, M. P., on a Red Cross mission to Canada...
There is an extraordinary fact about English democracy-namely, that at almost any given time some English leader turns out to be a perfect symbol of his people. At the time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...
...Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mr. Leslie Burgin, a half-dozen others...
...urge to own a string of race horses, went to Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Joseph Widener and many another famed U. S. turfman...
...failed in another job," interrupted Communist Willie Gallacher, referring to Lord Swinton's record of inactivity as Air Secretary under Baldwin and Chamberlain...