Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crisp and businesslike is Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, onetime Tokyo stockbroker, now Minister of Commerce & Industry. Last week he ruffled through a sheaf of amazing figures hot from the Japanese Federation of Cotton Textile Manufacturers. They showed what a spunky little Empire can do in two short years to a big, bumbling Empire-the British...
...diary for September next year that the British International Trophy for Motorboats is commonly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, not Harmsworth Cup. The emblem of speed supremacy for motorboats is no more a cup than is a dinner platter. Taking its name from Sir Alfred Harmsworth, later Baron Northcliffe, who donated it as an international speedboat trophy early in the century, the Harmsworth is a cheap bronze plaque, perhaps 15 by 18 inches, and mounted on a bar wood base. It represents a bit of rough water and an early speedboat, more resembling a fishing dory than anything else, going...
...which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier MacDonald and M. Paul-Boncour (see cut)-was said to be ready to press the same threat again. Anxiously Mr. Davis, Sir John and M. Paul-Boncour hurried to Geneva where they were joined by Il Duce's handyman in foreign affairs, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, and began negotiations with Germany's Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath and Minister of Propa ganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels when they arrived from Berlin. Officially the Disarmament Conference will not reconvene in Geneva until Oct. 18, but unofficially it began with the arrival...
Appointed to succeed the late Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzès, as Wolf Lieutenant for the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, was Baron Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild Bank in France, regent of the Bank of France, president of the Counsel of Administration of the Chemin de fer du Nord...
...score of Britishers, led by Sir Herbert Samuel, and including Labor Baron Snell of Plumstead, Sir John Power, Economist Theodor Emanuel Gregory, Cambridge's brilliant Philosopher & Critic Ivor Armstrong Richards...