Word: baldwinism
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...Stanley Baldwin: "In his way, you know, [he] was a great parliamentarian. I mean, he played on the House with very great skill. If there was anything awkward, he'd get up and talk about airy nothings. Nothing whatever to do with it. But he'd soothe the House...
...winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League as any man but Woodrow Wilson. He regarded the American President as courageous but "rather...
...other four places were taken by Gregory Baldwin, Richard Slansky, Nat Goodhue, and Don Kirkland...
...Association ball, announced that he could not "resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot of ale. Near Shrewsbury he donned a pair of hastily bought gum boots for a plowing and hedging contest, sloshed over 17 acres, talking farming...
...counties during the primary campaign, will visit all 99 again before November. A political novice, Bill Murray has previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads such books as Let's Go Into Politics, by onetime Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin ("Never admit you are losing; if you think you are, don't talk about it"). In rural Iowa, Murray's burnished phrases have less appeal than Loveless' lacerated syntax, and his urbane presence (Loveless loves to refer to him as "the college professor") is a liability, whereas...