Word: baldwinism
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...problem had never come up before, in all the 103 years that Ohio's little Baldwin-Wallace College has been going. Though run by Methodists, it welcomed students of all faiths: its chapel was compulsory but nonsectarian, and one of every ten of its students was a Roman Catholic. One day recently a Catholic coed paid a visit to neighboring St. John's College. She was worried. Was it proper, she asked a Catholic professor, for her to take the compulsory philosophy of religion course at Baldwin-Wallace...
...professor examined her textbook, and decided that it was not. The Diocese of Cleveland agreed. The professor told Baldwin-Wallace's 163 Catholic students that they must resign from the college. "If my doctor tells me to eat beef," he explained, "and a waiter in a restaurant says he has only pork, I don't stay and fight with him. I just walk out." By week's end 65 Catholic students had packed their bags and left...
...till the war did G.M.'s experiment pay off. The Army gave G.M. big orders for diesels for overseas work (where there was more oil than coal). On the other hand, the Government restricted the old-line companies, American and Baldwin, to making war equipment for the military, and steam locomotives for U.S. railroads. Thus, war's end found G.M. well ahead in diesels. Of some 5,000 diesel units now in service, two-thirds have been built by G.M. Into the once staid locomotive industry, G.M. has also breathed some of the dog-eat-dog competitive spirit...
...Baldwin could be generous: in 1919 he gave $600,000, one-fifth of his 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...
Died. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (Stanley Baldwin), 80, thrice Prime Minister of Great Britain; in Stourport-on-Severn (see FOREIGN NEWS...