Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Exchange seat; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Because he denounced his late, great father for taking a second wife twelve days after the death of his first, Financier Ryan was cut off with a set of pearl studs in the $135,000,000 will of Tobacco Baron Thomas Fortune Ryan...
...worst mistake in business was made in 1928, when he tried to buck the Berry brothers, William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
...landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican newsmen as saying: "American Export Airlines has the sympathy and backing of the U. S. Department of State . . . [which] will oppose any effort of Pan American to compete with TACA, now an American company." Costa Rican newspapers began...
James S. Bishop '42, Louisville, Ky.; Henry Brandt '43, New York, N.Y.; Le Baron R. Briggs 3d. '41, Plymouth, Mass.; Jack E. Bronston '42, Plainfield, N.J.; Earle J. Carleton Jr. '41, Newtonville, Mass...
...came from the Mount Airy, N. C. Times: "We propose an honor to this American-who fears no man, party, or power: let 'God Bless America' be changed to read, 'God Bless America and Give Us More Walter Winchells.' " At his Finnish home, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim...