Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baron Munchhausen
...acres of land and markets at least $50 worth of farm goods a year counts as a "farmer." But that term includes everybody from the Southern mill hand who grows a field of cotton as a sideline, netting $70 a year on ten acres, to the Southwestern cotton baron who manages his empire from an air-conditioned office, netting $65,000 a year on 1,000 acres. The Agriculture Department offers the mill hand and the baron the same support price on their cotton. A farm policy that treats rich farmers, poor farmers and part-time farmers as if they...
...Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
Conversion at 8. Balliol began as a penance imposed on John of Balliol, a Scottish baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...
Died. Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 49, 23rd Baron Audley, sometime playwright, heir to one of England's most ancient titles (dating back to 1313) and third husband (of 13 months) of Actress Sarah Churchill, Sir Winston's star-crossed daughter (her first husband, Comedian Vic Oliver, divorced her in 1945; her second, Society Photographer Antony Beauchamp, committed suicide in 1957); of a heart attack; in Granada, Spain...