Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Warrender Mackenzie, first Baron Amulree of Strathbraan, is Britain's foremost inquirer. He has investigated piece rates, trades disputes, industrial unrest, night baking, strikes, women in in- dustry, the wreck of the R-101 (TIME. Oct. 13, 1930). For two years he has been chairman of the Royal Commission on Licensing Laws investigating the British liquor situation. Last week, his work finished, long-nosed Lord Amulree made his report...
...Reunion Intime ('House-Party') to cost 13 fr. Swiss ($2.50) per day with a 10-fr. registration fee. From the U. S. came Olive Mary Jones, past president of the National Education Association, and Howard Alexander Smith, onetime executive secretary of Princeton University. The Netherlands' delegation was headed by Baron Godfrey Van Wrassenaer. Germany sent Baroness Moltzan and Baron Wilhelm von Richthofen, cousin of the late famed Aviator Manfred von Richthofen...
...various horses in a race. Bookmakers are bound to pay their clients at mutuel odds, which are theoretically a fair expression of opinion. But the mutuel odds on Linden Tree did not seem to be a fair expression of opinion. How this came about was explained by Baron Long, hotelman, racehorse owner and part owner of Agua Caliente Corp...
...five members of the Board of Overseers whose terms expire in June are: Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, of Cambridge; the late Charles MacVeagh '81, of New York City; Franklin Swift Billings '85, of Woodstock, Vermont; Philip Stockton '96, of Boston, and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge '15, of Boston...
...Baron Max von Oppenheim, German excavator, will lecture in the Large Room of the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "The Wonders of Tell Halaf," a proto-Hittite city of 5,000 years...