Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Welles conferred with the American Charge d' Affairs, Alexander Kirk, tonight. Earlier he saw Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop for two and one half hours and then had a long conference with the Under Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, Baron Von Weizsaecker...
Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
...railway carriage between Ox ford and London. It was probably his his tory of the reign of George V (The King's Grace) that got him his appointment as Governor General. There was such a furor over the appointment of a commoner that the King made him Baron Tweedsmuir (for his home in Scotland) of Elsfield (for his house in Oxford...
...Died. Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, Governor General of Canada, 64; after three cranial operations; in Montreal...
...Baron von Nusshaum repeated in his sleep, "Life is the saddest experience, through which I have ever gone, because tonight I am through. I am the past. I am gone with the wind...