Word: baron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the Dutchman spoken than Great Britain's Baron Cushendun and M. Paul-Boncour of France expressed disapproval and repeatedly used the term "surprised." Both told Jonkheer Loudon that their governments could not countenance a reversion to "Secret Diplomacy." Since Britain and France have just come to a secret naval understanding (TIME, Aug. 13) the indignation of their representatives was akin to that of small boys caught in the jam closet...
...poor was Baron Byng when he was created Viscount (1926) that he sensationally refused to pay the "peerage patent fee" of ?1,000 customarily demanded for "registering" a patent of nobility. After a delay of 18 months the fee was waived and Baron became Viscount without charge...
Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
...Commoner Baron told the Marquess of Reading that he desires the whole trust sum to be expended within 20 years in donations made every Dec. 5, Mr. Baron's birthday...
Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women...