Word: baron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one personage connected with the affair seemed completely indifferent to the rumpus, threats and stump speaking. He was the buyer of the ships, Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. For him they are a bagatelle. He is the greatest Ship Man in the world, the chairman or director of more than 20 British steamship lines with an aggregate capital exceeding ?200,000,000. His greatest and best remembered coup was to purchase, for the interests which he heads, the White
Star Line (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926). That transaction involved 35 ships and other assets valued at ?7,000,000. Therefore Baron Kylsant merely smiled, last week, at London newshawks when they asked if he expected "trouble" from the Australian unions. Lord Kylsant expects, it was learned, to augment the Australian Commonwealth Line with a few of the smaller, older White Star ships in case the Australian labor leaders are very, very good. Should "trouble" actually arise, His Lordship has but to transfer his seven bought-at-a-bargain ships to service with one of the chief companies which he directs...
...bearded Archpriest whose rich vestments recalled the pomp of Holy Russia stood, last week, with streaming eyes beside the deathbed of Peter Nicholaie-vich, Baron Wrangel. The place was merely a retired suburban villa, near Brussels, Belgium; but, as Death came to the lanky care-worn Baron, men recalled how recently and with what high courage he and his Cossack army all but succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet regime...
...troops Baron Wrangel was "The White Eagle," and to him they were "White Knights" pledged to fight for Holy...
...Died. Baron Kichachiro Okura, 91, millionaire merchant of Tokyo, in control of some 63 firms (hotels, theatres, steamships, shoe factories, breweries, etc.) in China and Japan; at Tokyo. Baron Okura spent $1,000,000 in a five day celebration on his 88th birthday; at 91 he proclaimed his longevity due to a diet of rice and eels...