Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigators are dictator-hating New Dealer Morris L. Ernst, who has spent most of his career as a pugnacious battler for civil rights, and Republican William H. Munson, an ex-district attorney and New York State Supreme Court justice. The publicist: Sydney S. Baron, speechwriter for Tammany Boss Carjnine De Sapio. Under the agreement, the lawyers and their crew of private investigators will have free access to any persons or documents in the Dominican Republic, will be free to publish their findings without censorship. "We know of no analogous instance," said De Moya, "when a sovereign state voluntarily has requested...
...heads of the Aga's playboy son Aly and his younger brother Sadruddin and landed on the shoulders of a sobersided young Harvard-man named Karim Khan, Prince Aly's eldest son by his first wife (an Englishwoman previously married to one of the wealthy brewery baron Guinesses...
...Britain's House of Lords, high-spirited Cinemactress Vivien Leigh listened impatiently to debate on the proposed demolition of London's 122-year-old St. James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach...
...flagrant injustice of William Palmer's trial would have been enough to make almost anyone sympathize. Of the three judges, two, including the Lord Chief Justice who presided, were set against Palmer from the start, and Mr. Baron Alderson--who was a personal enemy of Palmer's barrister--interfered in the trial with sarcastic comments on the evidence and counsel's efforts. The Lord Chief Justice showed open prejudice against the defending counsel, and even misdirected the jury...
Last week the London press got wind of the story of the princess and the piano player and spread it all over their front pages. In Stockholm, Baron Carl-Reinhold von Essen, Master of the Royal Household, made a formal statement: "It was a little innocent affair in London, as so often happens between young people, and the whole matter was declared ended with the Princess Sibylla's reply to the Englishman's letter of proposal. This reply was very polite but definite. The proposal was, from the Swedish viewpoint, to be considered impossible...