Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...abroad of the A. E. F. might have been: "Von Steuben, we are here!"- The Frenchman Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la La Fayette, was of very slightly more aid to the American revolutionary cause than was the German Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat the British at Yorktown. Congress, grateful for his services, gave him a gold-hilted sword, $2,400-per-year pension. He died...
...This was old stuff, but of the same quality that won 5,000,000 Liberal votes at the last election. What was new came next. Earlier in the week, Sir William Philip Morris, famed small-motor-car tycoon, had drummed up another committee of "foremost British industrialists," including Jewish Baron Melchett to try again to save the Empire from "economic ruin" and its "muddling politicians." Poking fun at the "Industrialists," Politician Lloyd George remarked that "Great Britain is the most overindustrialized country in the world. Only 7% of our people are on the soil! At present the industries...
...Rhapsody concerns itself with the problems of Lodar Baron (Louis Calhern), a Hungarian composer who still harbors a persecution fixation, brought on during the War by a brutal sergeant in his regiment. From time to time the composer disappears to go on informal manhunts when the thought of his onetime superior obsesses him. When the able ministrations of a mistress and a sweetheart are incapable of assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain...
...Author. The Sassoons, rich, prominent Anglo-Jewish family (they are supposed to have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...