Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make his own distinctly Russian substitute for a "form of social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this...
Like a persistent June bug, U.S. Music Czar James C. Petrillo hit the ceiling again. What set him off this time was a television performance of Aïda, with the actors pantomiming the words of an offstage record. In his A.F. of M. tradesheet, The International Musician, Petrillo denounced the "televisers who employ live musicians only on a casual basis and have indicated no present inclination to staff their stations with live musicians." The argument sounded fine; the only trouble with it, said the televisers, was a longstanding Petrillo ban against the employment of live musicians in television. Petrillo...
...Dizzy Czar...
...note your reference to James Caesar Petrillo as a non-smoker [TIME, Jan. 26]. How do you account for the enclosed cut of the "Czar" lighting up a "Lucky...
...proven oil pool on the continent, was thoroughly enjoying the crisis. By taking its one-sixth royalty (70 million barrels) in kind from the big private companies and then reselling most of it back to them at scarcity prices, the government was ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...