Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Baron Austin, 74, whose "Baby" Austins made him the Henry Ford of the British Empire; near Bromsgrove; England. In Britain, where motors are taxed by the horsepower, Austins are everywhere, but in the U.S. they flopped with upkeeping Joneses...
...Manfred Zapp and Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...
With all its other worries, the U.S. Department of State last week was worried about the answer to two questions: Where in the world was Baron Franz von Werra? Who had helped him to skip the U.S., jump his $15,000 Federal bond...
...Baron Hugo's band will fill the air with sweet, and Chloe Merimee, the noted Croole mystic astrologer, has been persuaded to abandon her retreat in the heart of old New Orleans to lend atmosphere to the proceedings...
...friends he had made. On the whole the report went down well. First there was a Cabinet meeting, from which Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was absent, as usual, with a cold. The Foreign Minister was subjected to what the Japanese press called "sincere and cautious questions" by Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Guardian of Imperial Rule, and by Justice Minister Lieut. General Heisuke Yanagawa. They asked about the implications of the Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact and about "thought problems at home...