Word: baldwinism
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...Francis Williams became editor of the Herald. He built its circulation to 2,000,000, second only to Beaverbrook's Daily Express. He put statistics together to prove that Hitler was rearming-and soon Conservative Winston Churchill was quoting Williams to the bumbling Baldwin government...
Carib Song (book & lyrics by William Archibald; music by Baldwin Bergersen; produced by George Stanton) is an all-Negro folk-fandango laid in the West Indies. A "musical play," Carib Song unfolds a triangle story so lethargic and sedate that it virtually libels the reputation of the tropics. The love story, moreover, is pretty much buried in native dialect (e.g., "I ain't know") and local customs, ranging from God-fearing church-going to god-fearing voodoo. All this is now & again picturesque but never dramatic. Carib Song owes its best moments to the dancing of Katherine Dunham...
...million fleet of cars, scuttlebutt added the name of Detroit's auto body builders, the Fisher Brothers. The five vigorous Fishers, with an estimated $250 million to invest, are looking for good businesses to buy. They now own a big chunk of stock in Baldwin Locomotive Works, have an eye on Hudson Motor...
Sober-sided New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin rumbled: "There is not much use blinking the fact that . . . the Japanese had made us look like monkeys- not on the battlefield, but since fighting virtually ceased...
Social Note. In Greenwich, Conn., three masked bandits entered the home of George H. Houston, ex-president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, announced a stickup, stayed an hour, toured the house, chatted pleasantly, finally bade Mrs. Houston and her baby grandchild good- bye, shook hands all around (first removing their gloves) and departed with several cases of whiskey, $75 and nine gas coupons...