Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticed some time ago your statement that the Monk Rasputin obtained his influence over the late Tsar and Tsarina by his mysterious healing of the Tsars young son (TIME, Dec. 6). I would like to call your attention to the fact that there are many healers in this country, among the followers of "New Thought,' who can do just as seemingly mysterious things. If you will get a copy of Nautilus published at Holyoke, Mass., you will find many instances of equally mysterious healings. I myself have done as great or even greater healings than that of the Monk Rasputin...
...Jewish precinct of Denver, and in the autumn of 1924 was marked "easy" by the politicians of both sides. The Republicans said they wanted all the votes for State Senators-the Democrats could have the rest. One of Judge Lindsey's minor assistants asked the precinct-tsar to "look after Ben out there," and paid him $25. The vote-counters counted the votes to make the answer come out right, and Judge Lindsey, among others, was elected. His opponent, one Royal R. Graham, died violently soon after, "and not of suicide," said his family. At Mrs. Graham...
Died. David Rowland Francis, 76, onetime (1889-93) Governor of Missouri, later (1896-97) Secretary of the Interior, and (1916-18) Ambassador to Russia; in St. Louis, after long illness. He was in Russia when Tsar Nicholas II was deposed. Through him, the U. S. recognized the Kerensky republic. He suffered from Bolsheviki attacks when the U. S. refused to recognize the revolution which placed the present Russian government in power...
...Moscow, in solitary confinement at gloomy Buterka Prison, Ignace Ghabin, sentenced to death last year (but later commuted) because he had served Tsar Nicholas as imperial hangman, died. He had hanged 645 men, many of them "innocent political prisoners" of the 1905 revolution. At executions Mr. Ghabin always wore dress clothes, white gloves, black mask. His pay: $2,500 per annum; $50 bonus per corpse...
Died. Robert P. ("Big Bob") Brindell, 47; onetime Manhattan labor Tsar; in Manhattan, of lung infection. As dock laborer he first organized 3,000 longshoremen, who paid him $18,000 a year (50c a month per man) for securing wage increase. Founding the Building Trades Council (1919), he came into command of 115,000 men, gave diamonds, automobiles, to friends. Imprisoned for extensive extortion (1921), he was released (1924) minus friends, health and most of the $1,000,000 he had made...