Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of TIME, Sept. 10, 1934 was handed up in King's Bench division last week for the inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle...
...British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit...
...Nelson, secretary of the Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., predicted a race of "feminine barflies." Of his new "lady drunkards," 90% are married, 77% are housewives. Bound to convince the chronically apologetic members of the American Society of London that he does not really consider Manhattan a huge fleshpot, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, patted his round stomach and expanded: "Why, if Oliver Cromwell were alive today and seeking to find the company most congenial to him he would probably find it on the 40th floor of an apartment building in New York." Becoming a chorus-girl...
...money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from the giving to the receiving end of the business, drew an income of $2,500 a week and became known in London's night clubs as "The Baron." In 1933 England shipped Baron Hartzell back to the U. S. and fortnight ago he took another trip, at Government expense, from Leavenworth to Chicago, headquarters of the racket for the past two years, to face a second fraud trial. In Chicago he and Otto G. Yant, bank cashier from...
With sanctions and the League of Nations monopolizing British news last week, few of George V's subjects realized how fast their Government is rushing forward with its program of rearmed Might. Acutely vexed by this program is Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, Baron Ilchester and Strangways. His hobby is swans and the Government has decided to convert a great tract scarcely four miles from Ilchester's famed swannery at Abbotsbury into a nerve-racking "bombing range." It has also decided to turn much of his property in Dorset into one of the world...