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Word: barone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the War, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was German Daredevil No. 1, and No. 2 was Airman Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, after the death of No. i, took over command of the famed Richthofen Squadron, daredevils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Hermann! | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Died. Baroness Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke, 30, British sportswoman and air enthusiast; in an automobile accident; near Baghdad, Iraq. The young Baroness, second wife of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, hunted lions in Africa, drove racing cars in Europe, in 1935 went to Ethiopia to ''watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dimpled Depravity | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director of Austria's largest bank, the Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt. At week's end erudite Egon Friedell, Jewish historian and playwright, jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: 'Spring Cleaning | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron Louis von Rothschild, to whose castle the Duke of Windsor went after the Abdication (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936). Top-flight correspondents of Jewish blood left voluntarily, others were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: 'Spring Cleaning | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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