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Press agents named the grand scheme Radio City. Then came the question of a figurehead to attract public attention, as Alfred Emanuel Smith was figureheading the Empire State Building. It was announced last week that Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel would be inaugurated "Mayor" of Radio City on April...
...physique and simplicity. He was soon lost in admiration of Barzor's guile and determination, did exactly as he was told. By a complicated chain of cunning schemes they fomented unrest in Jerusalem, lured the Roman forces far from the city and were about to strike?when their necessary figurehead, the man who was to head the revolt, fell fatally ill. Then everything turned against the conspirators; the priests of the Temple made peace with Pilate; the Roman army from Syria arrived; Barzor and Rongus were captured, quickly condemned to death...
Political Stride. Elderly, harassed Michael Ivanovich Kalinin is the puppet-President of Russia, a peasant-born figurehead (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Some 150,000,000 peasants hope that he defends their interests in proletarian councils of the Kremlin. He tries to. But last week he was obliged to pledge his support to a policy most peasants hate, the project to exterminate the kulak or "moneyed peasant" as a class (TIME, Jan. 13). Just now this is the thing closest to the heart of cold, quiet Dictator Josef Stalin, the arch-proletarian who is also making Russia stride...
...General Primo de Riyera joined the rank and file of erstwhile dictators yesterday, 200 students were incarcerated for their boisterous exuberance at the restoration of kingly power. Neither Alfonso's refusal to continue as a figurehead in these enlightened times of complete suffrage, nor the machinations of the Army as a political boss have occasioned more press comment in Spain's latest cabal than this violent outburst of joy from the halls of higher learning...
...month. The view of Signor Mussolini (no toe-kisser) remains that King should merely shake hands with Pope, denoting that they meet as temporal sovereigns of two earthly realms (Italy and the new Papal State). But Crown Prince Umberto (looked to by non-Fascist Catholics as the only figurehead they could possibly set up against Il Duce) lets it be known unmistakably that he thinks his father's lips should touch...