Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
...makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage was one of expediency. But when her private letters were released by her family last year, it was learned that even her husband loved her. "He appears to have suffered deeply," says Peter Quennell, "both from his wife...
Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York...
Putting two and two together and making news, Attorney McWilliams had reported to the committee that in Tsar Browne's Chicago bailiwick, newspapers reporting two 1935 labor murders had referred to Bioff and one Montana as "South Side gunmen wanted for questioning" and as "bodyguards for George E. Browne." When the hearings got under way, however, the committee found this stuff a little too hot to handle, and, after a week of inquiry into I.A.T.S.E.'s Hollywood methods, the investigation was adjourned. If Attorney McWilliams can authenticate his allegations, the inquiry will be resumed...
Thirty-five years ago, in uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral...