Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accused Duveen Bros, of mulcting the Government out of $5,000,000 in unpaid duties, accepted $1,080,000 in settlement. Waiting and anxiety were over last week. Right at the top of all newspaper lists of New Year's honors was Sir Joseph Duveen, at last a Baron of the United Kingdom...
...Certainly there has been a perfect orgy of this sort of thing," cried Baron Rankeil-lour. "I greatly fear that some of His Majesty's ministers and former ministers have forgotten the context of their oath...
Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...
...Britain, France and Italy declared that henceforth the Disarmament Conference shall strive to obtain for "Germany and other powers . . . equality of rights in a [treaty] system which would provide security for all nations." On this basis Baron von Neurath promised that Germany will re-enter the Conference when it meets next year...
...cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...