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...head-on into indomitable Boss James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians. With word that the pianist had failed to keep five concert dates in Canada within the past fortnight, Petrillo banned Levant from all further bookings until the executive board hears the case. Said Czar Petrillo: "I have an idea that Levant feels he is bigger than the federation. This we cannot tolerate...
...West has continually been making fresh spurts." Peter brought Russian weapons sufficiently up to date to defeat the Swedish invaders in 1709 and the French in 1812, but then the Industrial Revolution came along, and the West outstripped Russia, and (in the guise of the German army) beat the Czar's armies in World War I. Stalin took up where Peter left off, got Russia sufficiently re-Westernized by 1941 to defeat another Western invader, Nazi Germany. But no sooner had the Germans been cleared from the mother soil than the West shot out ahead again with the atomic...
...life to a throne. I have the same right to happiness as the milkman has." He was the first son of the reigning dynasty to be born on Rumanian soil and 101 guns had been fired at his birth in 1893. When his dominating mother, Queen Marie, conspired with Czar Nicholas II to marry him off at 20 to the Czar's eldest daughter, Olga, his reply was that he liked the Czar's second daughter, Tatiana, better. Cracked Nicholas Romanov, as he called off the match: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation...
...first corrections concerned his registered birthplace, Lowell, Mass. "I shall be born when and where I want," said Whistler, "and I do not choose to be born at Lowell." He was not averse to Baltimore, or even St. Petersburg, where his father had lived when building railroads for Czar Nicholas I, and occasionally accepted one of them as his birthplace...
...tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia's empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over the rest. More terrible than Ivan the Terrible, he enslaved millions in the name of freedom and sent millions to death in the name of improvement of the state. No corner of the world was safe from his ambition or secure from his intrigue. His word was gospel, his will law. He repealed truth and denied God. For millions, he was the infallible...