Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
Anyone who doubts this should have a confidential Scotch & soda before the hearth with Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, who was Governor of Bombay (a major Gandhi bailiwick) from 1918 through 1923, and was later famed in Egypt for the iron, ruthless hand with which he ruled that "Independent" kingdom as British High Commissioner (TIME...
Stubbornly shaking his head, George Rowland Blades, Baron Ebbisham, onetime (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London and Alderman for the Ward of Bassishaw, was the only dissenting member of a board of five which last week enthusiastically endorsed the long-shelved project to build a 20-odd-mile tunnel under the English Channel, connect London and Paris by rail. Not so Lord Ebbisham. Pressed for reasons, he contented himself with remarking ominously: "The displacement of sailors on the Cross-Channel Route would be regrettable...
President of the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. is Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, potent internationalist, chairman of the great Anglo-French banking firm of Erlangers, Ltd., naturalized Briton. Enthusiastic fellow supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
...power as Prime Minister he would call an Imperial conference on the question, submit its decision, if any, to a national referendum (a most unprecedented course in Britain, where referendums are considered contrary to the spirit of parliamentary institutions). Within an hour after Baldwin's about-face, Baron Beaver-brook's Evening Standard splashed out in what was said to be the largest headline type ever used in London: MR. BALDWIN DECLARES FOR THE EMPIRE. Below, Beaverbrook declared for Baldwin...