Word: baldwinian
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...personal fortune, to the state, to convince other rich men "that love of country is better than love of money." He could be generous, at the right moment, to political enemies: when his Tory followers demanded anti-trade-union legislation in 1925, he came out against it, with a Baldwinian peroration: "Give us peace in our time, O Lord...
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