Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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County Council to fulfill campaign pledges. Though he was personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office...
...Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds of his own to depress the market and prevent the offering of any new ones. Thus he compels Ledrantz to assign him the whole loan, sends the market...
...matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz. To save his fellow Jews from further persecution. Nathan Rothschild is almost ready to humble himself by appealing to Ledrantz when word arrives, by his secret method of communication, that Napoleon has landed in France and is mobilizing an army...
Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
...Normano, who came to Harvard last year as a visiting lecturer, was arrested in Cambridge on January 5, 1933 at the instigation of Baron von Tippleskirch, the German Consul. Hitler authorities claim he is Dr. Isaak Lewin, German banker who absconded in 1929, and was traced to South America. He was arrested in Brazil, but was discharged before the extradition papers were received from Germany...