Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Minister in Mexico City, Baron Rudt von Collenberg-Bödigheim (due to be ousted momentarily), is chief of the Gestapo in Latin America which operates its "own secret court system" for trial and punishment of offending German nationals...
First guesses were that Castillo would use his new powers to strangle the tendentious German Transocean News Service, to stomp out Nazi propaganda agents. But German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, whose deportation was asked three months ago by the Chamber of Deputies, continued as active as ever. Two henchmen representing the Federation of German Cultural & Beneficent Societies turned Castillo's "speak-no-evil" policy to their own advantage, refused to testify before Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's "Dies Committee" on the spending of more than $4,000,000 during the past year...
...W.G.N. handbook referred to in TIME of Dec. 1, telling how Homer, Dickens, Kipling, Mark Twain, et al. would have liked to work on the Chicago Tribune, I might also mention a couple of chaps who doubtless would have felt right at home on the Tribune staff: Ananias and Baron Munchausen...
Parliament itself last week took up the argument recently launched by James Richard Baron Atkin, 74, in one of the most notable dissenting opinions of recent times. Last month Lord Atkin protested against the power of the Home Secretary, under defense legislation, to by-pass the traditional democratic right of habeas corpus and imprison persons at his own discretion, not subject to court interference (TIME...
...hill near Munich, crashed ingloriously in a cabbage patch. To gaping villagers, he cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron's 80. In a duel with the French ace Georges Guyne-mer, his machine gun jammed and left him helpless. The Frenchman spotted his predicament and left him unharmed...