Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised to be a far different kind of affair. After Parliament adjourned in May Premier Bennett, rich and pious Anglophile, often mentioned as candidate for a British peerage, was in London at the Economic Conference. There he got a famed Scotsman to head his banking commission: Hugh Pattison MacMillan, Baron of Aberfeldy...
Every German knows that Captain Göring is an authentic ace hero of the Imperial air force, received Germany's grotesquely French-named Ordre Pour Le Mérite from Kaiser Wilhelm. After Allied airmen shot down the late great Baron von Richthofen he became commander of the Richthofen Escadrille...
...puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...