Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality coffee in U.S. grocery stores edged up last week past $1.15 - only 15? short of 1954's peak price and a fat 26? higher than 1955'$ low. This time around, the trail of cause and effect appeared to lead straight back to shrewd Manuel Mejia, czar of the Colombian Federation of Coffeegrowers...
...first volume (two more to come) of his history of Russia's time of troubles. It might as justly have been called Russia Leaves the West, for with the triumph in 1917 of Lenin's Bolsheviks over Russia's first and only democratic (Kerensky) government, the Czar's old empire made its fateful turn toward ancient patterns of tyranny and away from the liberal currents of the West...
...Bolsheviks won this game of chess by a fool's mate. The fools, of one sort or another, were the gullible men of the Western embassies. In the evening of Nov. 7, 1917, the Czar's Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture...
...Instituted by Music Czar James C. Petrillo in a campaign to force radio stations, bars and restaurants to employ members of the American Federation of Musicians...
...Soviet leaders to survive the purges-Kaganovich won Stalin's approval for his loyalty and toughness and got one top job after another. He played an important role in the party purges, was put in charge of the construction of the famed Moscow Metro and finally he became czar of Russia's railroads, a job that he pursued with such vigor during World War II that he instituted the death penalty for failure to make trains run on time. With responsibilities came rewards: his home town was named after him; so were half a dozen cities throughout...