Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamberlain & Daladier, Here was the stark Nazi reality which Europe faced -openly expressed at last-secretly impressed long ago upon the inner councils of London, Paris, Rome, Moscow. When Premier Edouard Daladier, who was presiding in Paris at a State dinner for the Tsar of Bulgaria, was called to the telephone by Neville Chamberlain and invited to No. 10 Downing Street for a last round-up this week, France had already given and observed many signs which made decision easier. Before every war which France has ever actually entered, the spontaneous will of her people has sent them swirling through...
...workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them...
Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...
...pacifist enough for him, left London this week on another whirlwind European tour, this time of 17 days. Two years ago he talked with President Roosevelt, last year with Dictators Mussolini and Hitler; this time Mr. Lansbury has been promised audiences by Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy, Bulgarian Tsar Boris, Rumanian King Carol, Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul...