Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests Mabel, seem somehow warier nowadays. Her main interests today are science, psychology, religion. Radicalism, believes Mabel, is "old hat." Still at Taos is Husband Tony. Explained Mabel: "He is coming for a visit in February, but he doesn't like New York. . . . He is an outdoors...
Spook Fancier. Stanley Baldwin would rather have tended his garden than preside over a Cabinet meeting. Sir Edward Grey liked birds more than diplomatic reports. Lord Halifax once said with evident truth: "I would rather be a Master of Foxhounds than Prime Minister." That is natural, for Edward Wood grew up outdoors on his father's spacious estate at Garrowby, Yorkshire, where he learned to ride as soon as to walk. His pious father, the second Viscount Halifax, was for 60 years the leader of the High Church party whose never realized dream was to reunite the Church...
...patently of a different breed, a law-abiding, churchgoing, public-spirited English gentleman of high birth. Such have their uses in politics. In 1922 he got his first Cabinet job as President of the Board of Education, first under Prime Minister Bonar Law, and then under Prime Minister Baldwin; in 1924 he became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries...
...British political world was surprised when Stanley Baldwin suddenly gave him, at 44, the biggest job of the British Empire outside Britain itself-that of Viceroy and Governor General of India. His sole qualification for that job seemed to be that his grandfather, Sir Charles Wood (the first Lord Halifax), had been Secretary of State for India. Actually his best qualification, as events proved, was that he was a charming, quiet, high-minded British aristocrat...
Soprano Grace Moore, asked by Connecticut Governor Raymond Baldwin to record a song for the State's highway safety campaign, had her secretary reply: "Miss Moore says she will be very happy to make the recording but would like very much for her favorite Governor to get the road fixed going up to her farm [in Newtown, Conn.] from the main road. ... I am sure Miss Moore would not only make the recording for Governor Baldwin, but would go out and sing to everybody, 'He Should Be President...