Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named...
Gropper. At bald, velvet-eyed Herman Baron's A.C.A. Gallery last week the best sharpshooter of all U. S. cartoonists had his third show of notable paintings. William Gropper is a short, thick man with dreamy grey eyes and an air of subdued but uninhibited amusement. He paints as he draws for the New Masses, from memory or imagination, as fast as he can and as briefly, with rich reds, yellows and slashing whites. Last summer he spent three months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst...
...Munich, a reception for sleek Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Germany's best amateur tennist, was suddenly canceled. Reason: Tennist von Cramm had been arrested on suspicion of violating paragraph 175 of the Reich criminal code, which refers to moral delinquencies...
Such facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have...
Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood...