Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last January Baron Franz von Werra, captured Nazi pilot, escaped from Canada to the U.S. Last week he escaped from the U.S. The Canadians had at least made it hard for him to get away...
Held in the U.S. for deportation, under $15,000 bond, Werra stayed in the Westchester home of a German consular agent, was kept "under surveillance" by Department of Justice agents. Recently these hawkshaws, checking up, were told that the Baron had gone South on a hunting trip. Actually, he had sailed for Peru, on a Swiss passport, three weeks before. Red-faced, Attorney General Jackson closed the stable door with a bang. Hereafter, he said, escaped prisoners would be turned back at the border. He denounced German consular officials for conniving at Werra's escape. They chuckled. Since...
...Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years...
Married. Mimi de la Grange, 22, daugher of French ex-Senator Baron Amaury de la Grange, niece of Socialite Mrs. George D. Widener; and Henry Baldwin Hyde, 26, Wall Street lawyer, son of ex-Expatriate Insurance Heir James Hazen Hyde, who after 35 years in Paris recently returned to Manhattan, scene of his feats as a dandy at the turn of the century; in Manhattan...
Died. Josiah Baron Stamp, 60, chief economic adviser to the British Government, chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway, director of the Bank of England, member of the 1924 Dawes Reparations Commission, leading pre-war advocate of German appeasement; when bombs demolished his house in London...