Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elected as permanent Speaker paunchy, polite Fascist Hermann Wilhelm Goering, "the diplomat of his party." Though there are only 230 Fascist Deputies, Col. Goering was elected by a vote of 367 to 216. Famed during the War as a Commander of the late Baron von Richthofen's Flying Squadron, Speaker Goering mounted the tribune with militant jerkiness, replied with a Fascist salute to the salutes of Fascist Deputies who bounded from their chairs shouting, "Hail Hitler...
Reminder to France. Next von Papen sent an ultimatum to France, discreetly conveyed in the form of an aide-mémoire handed by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath to French Ambassador Andre Frangois-Poncet in Berlin. This little reminder merely asked that France consent to revision of the Treaty of Versailles in such fashion as to give Germany a war strength equal...
...into important offices because of his ability to smooth things over. A graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University, he was Ambassador to Washington from 1909 to 1911, Ambassador to Russia during the World War. In two separate Japanese crises he became temporary Prime Minister. He was created successively a Baron, Viscount and Count and served on the Privy Council from 1924 to 1929. In 1928 he signed the Briand-Kellogg pact for Japan. In 1931 just before the Manchurian question became acute he was appointed president of the South Manchuria Railway. Japanese regarded the appointment as an effort to lift...
From Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, emerged Convict No. 2,715 to become again Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. His sentence of one year, for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus, had begun last November, was shortened for good behavior. The towering baron?he is 6 ft. 7 in. long but last week looked bowed and broken? was met by Lady Kylsant who escorted him by motor first to their May fair home, thence to their Welsh estate at Coomb Llangain, Carmarthen, where loyal villagers had erected a laurel arch. Some 40 villagers hooked ropes to His Lord-ship...
...fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...