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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the right of consanguinity is all on the side of Grand Duke Cyril, he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Today such sardonic defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

* Prince Dimitri has been employed for some years in Manhattan, Prince Rostislav in Chicago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lindbergh & Massacre! | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Mme. Dupuy, it was said, would absorb several liberal papers with her Petit Parisien, while M. Coty planned on various expansions and absorptions with his politically-conservative, journalistically-yellow papers. The Dupuy interests are valued at some $15,000,000 while M. Coty likes to be told he is one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Agog, Not Agape | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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