Word: barone
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William Waldorf Astor (born in New York City) moved to England in 1890, became naturalized in 1899, was created Baron Astor in 1916, Viscount Astor a year later, died in 1919. His son, the present Waldorf Viscount Astor, last week did the most un-swank thing possible, closed his magnificent Thames-side mansion "Cliveden" (where Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford were presented to George V and Queen Mary...
...contrast to German universities is no indication of a lack of intellectual interest among American students. In Germany the universities have had a tradition for interest in national and international affairs since the reorganization of Prussia under Baron Stein in 1808. Extracurricular activities, unknown in the Fatherland, absorb a large percentage of the undergraduate's time in this country, which might be devoted to discussion. Notwithstanding, the attitude of unconcern adopted by college men toward politics and foreign affairs is surprising to those familiar with the more mature outlook of European Universities. This unconcern is exemplified by the meagre interest...
First. Lord Reading succeeded the late Alfred Moritz Mond, Baron Melchett, as Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., thus becoming the Empire's No. 1 tycoon...
...became Attorney General, in 1913 Lord Chief Justice and a baron, in 1915 president of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U.S., the next year a viscount, in 1917 High Commissioner and special envoy at Washington, and an earl...
Next year Congress gave the Cross to Capt. Herman Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Civilian-Passenger Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, who were rescued by Pilot Balchen after their monoplane Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...