Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Igor Ivan Sikorsky first became interested in aviation when, aged 13, he observed the family wash flapping in the breeze. His interest in multi-motored flight was due largely to a mosquito. Born a Russian subject, in 1889, son of a wealthy psychology professor at Kiev University, he built his first flying-machine (a helicopter) at the age of 18, was jeered by crowds when it failed to rise. His second helicopter rose 5 ft. before collapsing. Thereafter young Sikorsky built a 15-h.p. biplane (S-1), followed by two others of more horsepower. All three crashed, because Igor...
While Chancellor Dollfuss, Major Fey and Under-Secretary Baron Karl Karwinsky were being trapped in the State Apartments, Vienna's chief radio station RAVAG was falling in the hands of eight desperate youths in Austrian Nazi gear. They had burst in, shot the manager and forced the chief announcer to tell all Austria in a trembling voice: "It is one minute and 30 seconds past one p. m. We have to inform you that the Dollfuss Cabinet has resigned and Anton Rintelen has taken over the Government...
...Baron Egon Berger-Waldenegg, Foreign Minister...
...newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher of Le Figaro. Stockholders gained control of his other newspapers. He owned a cordon of French chateaux including Madame Du Barry's "Luciennes...
...Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...