Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Augustus Thomas, playwright, "theatre Tsar," who once served as a page boy in the U. S. House of Representatives, injected his personality into politics last week by saying...
...most powerful man in Germany, if not in the continent of Europe. His wealth is said to be far greater than that of Henry Ford. He is the greatest coke-king in Europe, he is one of the chief oil magnates of that continent, he is a steel tsar, a hotel emperor, a shipping lord, a publisher, and a hundred other things...
...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...
...people have suffered enough and both laborers and peasants are longing for a new regime. There will be shooting without discrimination again, but the spirit of revolt will conquer in the end. I am convinced, after reports from the most reliable agents inside Russia, that the country wants a Tsar and a constitutional Government instead of Bolshevist absolutism. There always have been Tsars in Russia, and they always have been sort of spiritual fathers to their subjects. If I in turn gain the throne, it will be to forget my own personality and to work for the best interests...
...give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...