Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already has a world-famed low-temperature laboratory, it has otherwise been content to leave Cambridge a clear field for leadership in science. Oxford's angel is Lord Nuffield, automobile maker. Cambridge's No. 1 benefactor in recent years is another motor-maker, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, who, now 71, made his first car in 1895, competes with Nuffield for the nebulous honor of being called "the Henry Ford of England." In 1936 Austin gave Cavendish $1,250,000. Some of the equipment made possible by this gift has been completed and more is under...
Second director was furry-visaged John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters...
This rationalizing is hard-boiled and runs as follows: 1) The Liberal party's present leader and inspirer was the creature of the Democratic political barons. In fact, until Jim Farley did his job in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was only one more baron; 2) A Liberal party will always be a "poor" party, therefore ideas must make it tick instead of money; 3) If the New Deal is to survive under Franklin Roosevelt or anyone else, as a Liberal party beyond 1940, its ideas must be churned into the local electorates, right down into the precincts whence Congressional...
Significance. Just how much Admiral Horthy was impressed by Herr Hitler's show can only be shown by events. But last week, while he was in Germany, one of his diplomats, Baron Bessenyei-Bakach, was quietly tending another iron which the hard-headed Admiral has in another fire. In Bled, Yugoslavia, the Baron was attending a meeting of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania), satellites of France. There on behalf of Regent and Hungarian Premier Béla Imrédy, the Baron "agreed in principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under...
...year-old Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...