Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lower court McMahon related that in 1935 "a member of a political body in England'' introduced him to agents of a foreign government who offered him employment as a spy and later took him to "a certain baron" whose name the prisoner wrote on a piece of paper and passed to the judge. This baron was a member of the Embassy staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified...
...Tokyo, Alumnus Baron Ino Dan (Graduate School, 1917-1918), of the potent banking firm of Mitsui, was so delighted to find a Japanese lantern exactly 300 years old that he packed it off to Cambridge in care of his friend Professor Masaharu Anesaki...
Physician on Strain. Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder, physician-in-ordinary to Edward VIII, spoke angrily at Blackpool on "The Strain of Modern Civilization." 'Tn the street," cried he, "the trained eye detects physiognomies in all stages of the anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount...
Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...
...reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that the Australian and German Davis Cup players would participate in it. The Australians declined. Germany's famed Baron Gottfried von Cramm, now generally rated the world's No. 2 player, was kept at home by illness. That left the U. S. title apparently at the mercy of the world's No. 1, Fred Perry of England, who was also the only important foreigner entered. Perry...