Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Affaires to Great Britain, who was en route last week back to Moscow (TIME, May 13). Stepping from the train, M. Rosengolz was greeted warmly by Comrade Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov, Soviet Minister to Poland, very generally believed to be an official who signed the death warrants of the late Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Arm in arm, the two Comrades entered the station buffet, ordered tall glasses of steaming tea. The train would wait an hour, then carry them both on to Moscow...
...Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...
...President Coolidge sent Smedley Darlington Butler to this key post of high responsibility? General Butler is a name which called up very recently no more than his comic tribulations as "Dry Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands...
...following program will be given at the Pops tonight: Overture to "Rienal" Wagner "L' Arlesienne" Suite No. 1 Bizet Prejude Minuet Adagietto Carillon Songs by James R. Houghton (Baritone) a. "Wanderlied" Schumann b. The House by the Side of the Road Gulesian "Tsar Saltan," Suite Rimsky-Korsakov "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana Spauish Rhapsody Ravel Ballet of the Hours, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar
Clergy Pensions. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who headed a committee to gather $15,000,000 last year for a ministers' pension fund, announced fruition of his campaign; was visibly moved at the earnestness of applause accorded...