Word: baden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week it again went forth to shop. This time it angled (with cash plus stock) for the unprofitable electrical business of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Boveri was formed in 1925 to succeed New York Shipbuilding Corp., and acquired the U. S. licenses of Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. of Baden, Switzerland, one of the world's leaders in the electrical equipment field. In 1928 it contemplated sale of its shipbuilding business but changed its mind when the Jones-White law was passed, sending it much new business. In 1925 Boveri made...
...head of the B. S. A., Scout Schiff will find neither novelty nor difficulty in doing his good turn daily. Among his numerous gifts to scouting was $50,000 which he gave Lt. General Sir Robert Baden-Powell at the World Jamboree in England two years ago for the extension of the organization's international work. Outside of Scoutdom, Scout Schiff's good turns have been numerous. He is President of the Jewish Board of Guardians, honorary vice president of the Jewish Social Service Association, second largest subscriber to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies...
Engaged. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, youngest daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, onetime fiancée of Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fünstenstein (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930), and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, aviator, employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in Umkirch Castle, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. After the betrothal ceremonies the couple took off for a short Verlobungsfahrt (engagement trip) in an airplane...
Dead Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...When the Baden put back to Rio her captain was gaoled. Complained he: "They had been firing blank shots all day to celebrate the revolution...