Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maltese Catholics were amazed last week that Baron Strickland of Sizergh Castle is still Premier of Malta, amazed and expectant that King George would at once remove Lord Strickland...
...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
...Caliente at the surprisingly long odds of 9 to 1. They suspected that someone had "tampered" with the parimutuel betting machines- i. e., bet a large amount on other horses in the race at the last minute, to make the odds on Linden Tree go up. Three days later, Baron Long, hotelman and part-owner of the Agua Caliente track, admitted he had done the tampering. He said he had done it for a joke, to revenge himself on bookmakers who had played the same joke on him (TIME...
Although the amount of money which he won ($6.200) was small enough to make the Long story credible, Agua Caliente stewards did not take the matter lightly. They suspended Baron Long, banned his horses at Agua Caliente. Last week, disgusted, he said he would quit racing "forever." Up for sale were the Long racehorses, his Rancho Valle de las Viejas, most pretentious stud farm on the Pacific Coast, valued...
Even three weeks ago such an article would not have been allowed to appear. With at least one point in the article Baron Shidehara's successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers...