Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...
...last decade, one or another of these blood brotherhoods was behind the assassination of Premiers Hamaguchi and Inukai, onetime Finance Ministers Inouye and Takahashi, Generals Watanabe and Nagata, Admiral Saito, Financier Baron Dan-men who seemed to the superpatriots to have betrayed Japan's divine mission to dominate Asia. Toyama personally had a hand in promoting the acquisition of Korea and in starting the Russo-Japanese war, and through the incredible Major Dohihara and a ruffian named Komei precipitated the Manchurian incident...
...first place, they had got Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, a violent superpatriot (TIME, Dec. 2), appointed chief of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Prince Konoye's central directing agency concerned with streamlining the Government. Fortnight ago Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, former premier, a leader of the secret National Foundation Society, who has long been called Japan's foremost Fascist, was named Home Minister, in charge of police, secret service, censorship...
...prominent member of the Gestapo was last week on his way to advise the Baron...
...retired general, Heisuke Yanagawa, was made Justice Minister, a post hitherto held by trained jurists. Domei news agency, which is seldom wrong about Japanese politics, last week predicted that General Baron Sadao Araki, one of Japan's most notorious firebrands, would soon be given a Cabinet post...