Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy Jew, who made his money and home elsewhere, has given generously to the Zionist movement, among them: Felix Warburg ($50,000-$100,000 a year); the late Nathan Strauss ($2,000,000); Maurice Levin ($50,000); Israel Sieff ($250,000); Simon Marks ($250,000); also the late Baron de Rothschild...
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S HENCHMAN- Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of the excesses of the Terror. The serious reader, if undeterred by the frenetic prose, may pick his way through this maze of personalities to an elaborate but convincing expose of the technique of counterrevolution...
Thursday Evening, May 7 American Programme--(to benefit the Christopher Shop George Gershwin, Soloist *"Stars and Stripes Forever"Sousa "In War Time,' 'from the "Indian Suite" MacDowell *"Fosteriana," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Arr. by Baron *Concerto for Pianoforte in F Gershwin (The Composer as soloist) *Symphonic Suite, "Porgy and Bess" Gershwin (The composer conducting) *Victor Herbert Favorites Arr. by Sanford *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin (The composer as soloist) Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...personal physician of King Edward VIII, Thomas Jeeves (''Tommy") Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford, steaming into New York Harbor last week, watched U. S. Public Health physicians scrutinize passengers' wrists for early signs of smallpox. Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute...
Prop For Eden. At this point the British Government realized that something must be done to restore the prestige of Anthony Eden and take a little cockiness out of Baron Aloisi. Slow-moving Stanley Baldwin hoisted himself on a lecture platform in Worcester to defend Britain's temporizing on sanctions, and his Foreign Secretary...