Word: baldwinism
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Cried Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Such confused action as this creates justified criticism both here and abroad. The U.S. is on shaky ground in protesting the exclusion of U.S. journalists and others from foreign countries behind the Iron Curtain when we follow such methods here...
...yard freestyle: Won by Girdes (Yale); second, DeForrest (Penn); third, Parker (Yale); fourth, Moore (Yale); fifth, Baldwin (Williams); sixth, Hassett (Yale). Winning time...
...mile run--Won by Baldwin, (Y); second, Thompson, (Y); third, Oestricher, (Y). Time...
There was nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...moral objectors were already out in the open. They were labor leaders, church leaders, many educators (but not all), Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, Physicist Albert Einstein, and such groups as the National Council Against Conscription. The council, in a pamphlet endorsed by Einstein, argued that U.M.T. would further a military influence which they saw already creeping into too many phases of U.S. life, including even the Boy Scouts of America. U.M.T., they argued, ran counter to the nation's traditions and expressed ideals. U.M.T. would be interpreted by the world as a warlike threat...