Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While every Manhattan paper raced for its own exclusive to keep ahead of official disclosures, Newsday patted itself on the back for its spadework: "Labor Czar Bill De Koning has been indicted . . . Scores of persons who have felt . . . De Koning's wrath have written this paper anonymously. They no longer need to fear...
Reuter was a Prussian who became a pacifist. He was a Socialist who knew what Communism was about, because he had once been a Communist. Fighting on the Russian front in World War I, he was wounded and captured by the Czar's army. They set him to work in the coal mines, south of Moscow. The Red Revolution freed him, and Nikolai Lenin himself made Reuter a commissar in the new U.S.S.R. His boss in the Commissariat of Nationalities was Joseph Stalin, whom he afterwards dismissed as a man with "the mind of a sergeant...
...Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that Turkey was indeed "the sick man of Europe." Exactly 100 years later, an astute and wealthy Texan named George McGhee, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, looked out over the green plains of Anatolia and said: "You know what this country reminds me of? It's got the stuff, the git up and go, and it's rolling. Why, Turkey today is just like Texas...
...Both Czar and ambassador had it right. In one century, the sick man of Europe has become the strong man of the Middle East. If not the paradise that propagandists sometimes paint, Turkey is stable, strong, democratic, progressive, booming. No nation stands so steadfast against Russia. In NATO it is the free world's strong southern anchor; in the Korean war, its brigade was the "BB Brigade," the Bravest of Brave. Turkish landing fields put U.S. strategic air half an hour away by jet from the Baku oilfields of Russia...
Died. Margaret Anna Bird Insull, 80, widow of Samuel Insull, onetime Midwest utilities czar; in Chicago. A noted Broadway beauty, she married Insull in 1899, and became a princess of Chicago society. She tried in vain to make a stage comeback at 42, ten years later sank $200,000 in a benefit production of The School for Scandal. In 1932, when the $3 billion Insull empire disintegrated, she fled to Europe with her husband, later urged him to surrender and face trial on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement. During Insull's famed trials and acquittals...