Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon, the British Empire's august new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (see p. 19) toiled most of last week at the congenial task of earning $125.000 by his efforts to win an appeal in the case of famed Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Aug. 10, et ante...
...monocle as well known abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...
Being a Jewess, she is unable to secure a passport. Instead, she secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil...
Reds Waiting. Roaming Mr. Chen has been at Moscow as well as Tokyo. If Baron Shidehara welcomed last week the advent of a Chinese realist with whom he could negotiate, the Japanese Foreign Minister did not welcome a possibility that Mr. Chen may have obtained promises of Soviet backing...
...Baron Walter von Mumm onetime "champagne king" of Rheims, whose fortunes had withered until he was living in a $10-a-week Manhattan rooming house, shot himself above the heart in the Long Island home of his oldtime friend William H. vom Rath. A note read: "Bury me as I am and keep this out of the newspapers." But Baron von Mumm rallied and gave promise of recovering, just as he survived after Mrs. Marie Van Rensimer Barnes shot him in 1912 in her Paris apartment; just as he survived the wounds of Russian bullets when he was a German...