Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to General von Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: An aristocrat without the spirit of his more rugged forbears, he has become a single-minded specialist on Naval legislation, shunning the larger fields of political leadership. His term expires March...
...Widow raised her black arms outside the Prison de la Sante in Paris. A morbid crowd of night club habitues in evening dress, messenger boys, street sweepers, workmen and tramps gathered in the grey morning light to see what is said to be the first guillotining of a French aristocrat since the Revolution...
...Aristocrat of the carriers, New York Central Railroad Co., found itself in urgent need of cash, applied to I. C. C. for permission to sell $100,000,000 of 5% bonds to mature in the distant year of 2013 and to be callable 5% above par in 1951. Never in receivership or reorganized in its 100 years of operation. New York Central faced a grave difficulty. Next month matures a large part of its $51,500,000 short-term loans and bank debts which it cannot meet with cash on hand. The road did not ask for permission to sell...
Esteban smelled powder early. He was only five months old when his Indian mother carried him through the battle of Cerro Caido, in the war of independence (against Spain). In the battle his mother lost her man but rescued an aristocrat. Don Geronimo Cerromayor, was adopted for her pains. So Esteban grew up with a fancy name, but there were still times when he felt like an Indian...