Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like misers in their closets, each little Central European government was trying to hoard its currency last week. Hungarians, always drastic and dramatic, were first to declare an actual "transfer moratorium." In Budapest handsome blond Baron Frederick de Koranyi (who in ornate Magyar costume on State holidays makes Magyar ladies' eyes dance) issued the Hungarian moratorium decree as Minister of Finance. It provides that for the next twelve months...
...bill of objections, contending that the will in question was not the last Erlanger will, that at the time of its execution Erlanger was not of sound mind, that the will showed fraud and undue influence exerted by Mr. Erlanger's brother and sisters and Saul J. Baron, an executor of the will. Last October the matter came to trial...
...that "with the equivocal assistance of Mr. Gandhi and the undisguised encouragement of Vallabhai Patel, President of the Indian National Congress," a campaign of essentially Communist propaganda has been waged ever since five days after the signature last spring of the truce between Mr. Gandhi and the Viceroy, then Baron Irwin (TIME, March 16). Objects of this Red campaign appeared to the Government to be "total expropriation of landlords' property and the setting up of a peasants and workers republic...
...Baron Shidehara who warned the Army that Japan, by a tactless invasion of Manchuria, would tarnish her bright chance to force recognition by China of what Japan considers her "treaty rights'' in Manchuria by appealing to the World Court of which a Japanese, Mineichiro Adachi, is now President. It was Financier Inouye who warned that Japan's budget can scarcely be expected to stand both the cost of invading Manchuria and the resultant Chinese boycott which, more successful than all previous boycotts, had cut Japan's sales to her best customer 60%. Both warnings went unheeded...
...Keeping Faith." As helpless as ousted Finance Minister Inouye last week was ousted Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, who looks as much like Theodore Roosevelt as a Japanese can and who has tried in vain for the past three months to win Japanese militarists to his "Peaceful Policy" respecting China and Manchuria...