Word: baron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...Baron Revelstoke appeared as rapporteur for his informal group before a secret session of the second Dawes Committee and made an oral statement* understood to be in substance...
...delegates of the Conservative Party Congress who had unanimously chosen Worm Rowlands as "Chairman," next chose as a "Vice Chairman" the world's biggest Steamship Tycoon, Baron Kylsant...
Looking around some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher Paul Block. Charles B. Dillingham. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...
Among the volumes being shown, all of which were published in the early years of the nineteenth century, are "Annals of Sporting" by Caleb Quizem, and "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen...