Word: czar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most of his Cossacks, seemed to be loyal to Czar Peter the Great. Later he switched his allegiance, thereby thoroughly confusing nearly everybody. Defeated with his Swedish allies at the battle of Poltava, Mazepa fled into Turkey where he soon died of exhaustion...
...some kind words for Eric Johnston: "As president of the [Motion Picture] Association, he has been and is a wholesome influence for common sense and decency. Yet he does not have the authority usually vested in a czar. I wish he had that power. I hope it may be imposed upon him soon...
Alexandro Feodorovich Kerensky, social revolutionist who helped overthrow the Czar in 1917, intends to reveal "the real object of the Kremlins international policy" in an address at the New Lecture Hall on April 21 at 8 p.m., John H. Mansfield '51, chairman of the United Nations Council announced yesterday...
After one deep, horrified breath, Hollywood struck back. Urbane Movie Czar Eric Johnston denounced the Johnson measure as an effort to set up a "commissar of the morals of the American people." A Johnston Office spokesman called it a "police state bill." Chairman Roy Brewer of the Motion Picture Industry Council described it as "the first step toward totalitarianism." In the Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Florabel Muir asked: "I 'wonder how many U.S. Senators could pass a purity test?" In a column titled "Look Who's Talking!" the Hollywood Reporter's William R. ("Billy") Wilkerson pointed...
Like the strains of a waltz from old St. Petersburg, the dollar bonds of Czar Nicholas II's Russian Imperial Government have been haunting Wall Street for more than 30 years. At the time of the Czar's execution in 1918 some 75,000 of the bonds, each with a face value of $1,000, were floating around the U.S. One of the first acts of the Soviet government was to repudiate them, and they have never been worth a kopeck since. Yet U.S. speculators have never tired of trading in them and the bonds have kept some...