Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 1,000 New Year's Honors for subjects throughout the empire there was no creation above the rank of baron, lowest in the peerage. Outstanding honorees...
Finished with Baron Munchausen (Funnyman Jack Pearl), Lucky Strikes undertook to sponsor the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts hitherto paid for by National Broadcasting out of its own pocket as a sustaining program. The Metropolitan will be on the air Saturday afternoons and for special matinees, starting on Christmas with Hansel und Gretel. The Lucky Strike contract is worth at best $100,000 to the hard-pressed...
William Rockhill Nelson migrated to Kansas City from Indiana 55 years ago, founded the Star which quickly grew to fame. Known as the Baron of Brush Creek, he died in 1915. By his will, and those of his wife and daughter a $12,000,000 trust fund from the sale of the Star to its employes was set up to build a great museum, to fill it with treasures.* There was only one important restriction: the museum may only buy the works of artists 30 years dead...
...Germany is not going to break the treaty of Versailles," said Baron Kurtvon Tippleskirch, Boston's German Consul General, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "But if the victorious Allied Powers continue, as heretofore, to disregard their own solemn pledge to disarm given in that Trenty, their attitude can, in my opinion, not be construed but to represent a flagrant violation and rupture of the very same Treaty. The whole responsibility thus lies exclusively on the shoulders of those victorious powers...
...When Baron von Tippleskirch was questioned concerning the current rumor that big English bankers and the House of Morgan in this country had financed the Hitler Revolution, he answered, "I think is is just a rumor like other rumors and without any foundation. Besides, had foreign bankers meant to keep German workers subjugated by financing the Hitler Revolution, this would indeed betray an extremely poor judgment. Hitler's aim in by no means to subjugate the German workman, but to lift him to his proper-position within the larger community of the German people. Hitler feels himself personally much nearer...