Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy paucity of source materials enables Trotsky to draw the same kind of brilliant character surmises, inferences and conclusions that he improvised (in his History of the Russian Revolution) from some scraps of Czar Nicholas II's journal. From it the young Stalin emerges as a parochial presence of lurking and furtive evil...
...Sent to the White House a bill forbidding Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to: 1) tax canned music, 2) ban amateurs, 3) featherbed on U.S. radio...
...Czar Nabs Wrong...
...neither case was the effort at conformity more than superficial. The fate of the Old Bolshevik word "commissar" was just a finishing touch in Russia's new nationalism. Commented one U.S. diplomat: "Now they have everything back but the Czar...
Died. Dr. Alexander A. Alekhine, 53, world's chess champion (on & off) since 1927; of angina pectoris; in Estoril, Portugal. A former captain in the Czar's army, he once played 29 simultaneous games blindfolded, took time out for dinner, won them...