Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
Empire Free Trade. One Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...Began to greet their colleague, the onetime British Ambassador to the U. S. by his new title, announced in the Official Gazette last week: "Baron Howard of Penrith and of Gowbarrow in the County of Cumberland...
Died. Count Yasukata Oku, 84, Japanese soldier-patriarch, commander of the Emperor's 2nd Army in the Russo-Japa-nese War; after long illness of bronchial catarrh, at his home in Tokyo. Born a Commoner, his war services won him the titles of Baron and Count, First Class of the Order of the Golden Kite, Japan's Highest military award. He was made Field Marshal...