Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
...Reported last week in Hankow was the success of Japanese efforts to have Germany, as Japan's anti-Communist ally, order the recall of General Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen and his staff of 40 German military men who have long been "personal" advisers to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
While his country's national tennis tournament went on without him, Germany's No. 1 Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm stood trial for homosexuality. Testimony was taken in Berlin's gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst...
...even the most optimistic signatories of the open letter held out little hope of seeing handsome Baron von Cramm. in his customary flannels and gay-striped blazer, step out on the international tennis courts this summer...
...Spare, sandy-haired Major Gerald Constable Maxwell's paternal grandfather was William Maxwell, 10th Baron Herries; his maternal grandfather was Simon Fraser, 14th Baron Lovat. He was not the first of the English families of the Maxwells and the Frasers to distinguish himself in war (he shot down 30 German planes, for which he was amply decorated), but certainly no Maxwell or Fraser before him had so distinguished himself in business. After the War, Mr. Maxwell acquired the Chrysler agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having...