Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Bumped Off. Dead, apparently shot in the back by a Red Militia execution squad, was Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, First Secretary of the Belgian Legation in Madrid. Incensed at Brussels, the Government of His Majesty King Leopold III demanded $35,000 indemnity from Spanish Premier Largo Caballero, plus a Spanish apology and full military honors for the Baron. His corpse was dug up and the Baron de Borchgrave was found to have been killed by a pistol shot just behind the ear in the classic style of "Spanish bumping off parties" (TIME, Jan. 11) and Chinese executions...
...been sending and as Madrid has been buying in the U. S. (see p. 13). Der Führer therefore was faced with having to decide his next big move in Spain-either intervention whole hog, or scuttle-and in Berlin foreign envoys were secretly tipped by Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath who emphasized, "I am speaking for the Chancellor." His exact words were not published but their gist was a declaration that Germany will not permit the establishment in Spain of anything resembling Soviet rule, and demands of Britain and France that they state whether they...
...Baron Nuffield of Morris Motors, "the Henry Ford of Great Britain/' last week gave $10,000,000 into the hands of three private trustees "to give practical shape to current expressions of good will toward King George and at the same time do anything I can to support the National Government, particularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.'' Seated on a platform at Oxford University recently, plain Lord Nuffield. who grew up in Oxfordshire from bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school...
Married. Mrs. Clara Le Baron Morgan Warren, widow of Wyoming's Senator Francis Emroy Warren, mother-in-law of General John Joseph Pershing; and Albert Wells Russel, retired Cleveland businessman; by Rev. ZëBarney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; in the Washington apartment of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Baron Rothschild closely accompanied his Baroness and the Duke when they played a round of golf on the castle's private links, and the Austrian caddy said that his Royal Highness continually sang snatches of popular tunes...