Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgarians! The war clauses no longer exist. This great success is due to the wise leadership of Tsar Boris III who has accomplished it in the proper way, at the proper time. Long live the Tsar! Long live Bulgaria...
Smart, thrifty little Tsar Boris made his first effective move toward undermining the Treaty of Neuilly in 1930 when he married a daughter of the King of Italy, gaining Bulgaria a friend among the powers which won the War. In later years, the Balkan Entente formed by Turkey, Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia -the last two on markedly friendly terms with Italy-gradually warmed up to friendship with Bulgaria. In part, this was because Tsar Boris, with...
...that Bulgaria has openly rearmed, the realm of Tsar Boris too may expect to benefit from the "loans" which Britain and France are so lavishly making to assure that the Balkan States will stand with Democracy (TIME, July 25). Paris dispatches this week announced that a consortium of French banks are "studying" the question of lending Bulgaria three hundred million francs...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...
...From the Russian revolution: a jerky, 20-year-old shot, shown before in the U. S. in Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937) of the execution of nine men, three at a clip. Standing on the brink of a deep, wide grave, they face the firing squad stolidly. When the guns bark, their caps fly off, they double up with comic strip grotesqueness, topple into the grave...