Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civil war last week but vigorously boiled a question now vexing socialists in many lands: whether those Communist forces which have made the Soviet Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead...
...civil population [in Leftist Spain] now is desperate," declared Socialist Baron. "Food supplies have been reduced to severe siege rations. Under the present regime, democratic forces have lost their spirit and this, coupled with severe privation, has weakened their resistance...
Slack-jowled Baron Erik Kùle Palmstierna, 60, since 1920 Swedish Minister to the Court of St. James, let it be known he had resigned his post effective January 1. Reason: to devote full time to spiritualism, on which he has composed a book (Horizon of Immortality). London gossip said his decision was the result of mystic advice supplied him at a seance...
Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage...
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers...