Word: barons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fluctuations of nearly $15,000,000 in the total value of, shares in British Royal Mail-world's largest shipping corporation-resulted last week when Tycoon Viscount St. Davids quarreled violently with his brother Tycoon Baron Kylsant, Chairman of the B. R. M., "Lord of the Seven Seas...
...entered in a body, among them towering Tycoon Kylsant and the Duke of Abercorn. Rapidly they took their places until all the chairs at the Directors' table were full except one-the one ostentatiously left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then swept the room with penetrating gaze until his eyes met those of Viscount St. Davids. Tycoon glared at tycoon, brother at brother. The seconds felt like hours. Then Baron Kylsant nodded sharply, pointed imperatively to the empty chair. Neither brother spoke...
...jovial Publisher-Peer Lord Riddell, finally by the company at large after suitable replenishments. But when Lord Derby had drunk ceremoniously and passed the cup, Teetotaler Dawes pursed his firm lips, brushed the Vintners' chalice against them for less than a second, then swiftly passed it on to Baron Riddell...
...reasons popularly given for the fall of the Tanaka government-lèse-majesté and the Manchurian murder of Chang Tso-lin-Tokyo businessmen added a third last week. Baron Tanaka's "Positive Policy" of intervention, vigorous protection of the Japanese colony in Tsinanfu, had brought a boycott of Japanese goods throughout China. By the most rudimentary bookkeeping, balancing the $250,000,000 colony of Tsinanfu against $500,000,000 annual trade with China, Tokyo businessmen realized that the "Positive Policy" must...
...Familiar to Washington is the new Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara, onetime (1919-22) Ambassador to the U. S. Bright eyed, ever smiling, Baron Shidehara would be an agreeable, helpful principal in any conference on naval reductions. As Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wakatsuki, preceding Baron Tanaka, he inaugurated the policy of conciliation with China which Tanaka so disastrously upset...