Word: baron
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This week a Finnish private soldier named Vilho Raetoe became a Knight of the Mannerheim Order-Finland's highest military honor-by decree of Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. There are only three other Knights-two colonels and a major general. Private Raetoe made a fourth by capturing a Russian anti-tank gun singlehanded, sighting along its barrel, from which the sights had been lost, wrecking four Soviet tanks...
DEATH AND TAXES - David Dodge -Macmillan ($2). A huge tax refund on a dead beer-baron's estate motivates the murder of an income-tax expert. The expert's pardner, who likes liquor, ladies and a good scrap, helps California police clean up a tricky case. Hard-hitting and well-knit - the "find" of the month...
...story ballroom and immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
...motion of Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma the Privy Council approved the appointment of two special investigators in the Foreign Affairs Section of the Police Bureau. Purpose of this move is to extend Thought Control (Japanese for suppression of free speech) to all matters of foreign policy. The police immediately issued a warning against "loose talk" in criticism of the Government's still unannounced "momentous decision" (TIME, July...
Died. Charles Alfred Cripps, Baron Parmoor, 88, parliamentary and ecclesiastical lawyer, father of Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to Soviet Russia; at Henley-on-Thames, England...