Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bustling up to Moscow last week went famed Leon Jouhaux, the portly "Tsar of French trade unionism." During last year's active "New Deal" period in France, pot-bellied Tsar Jouhaux was a hero to millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive...
...known as the tsar of the motion picture industry is Will H. Hays. Potentially more powerful than Tsar Hays is a man named George E. Browne. His terrific title: President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures...
...price to unions of affiliation with I.A.T.S.E. has been high. Unions have lost not only autonomy but control of $750,000 in dues and assessments since Tsar Browne took over the purse strings in December 1935. Credited to the four largest unions in the I.A.T.S.E. combine is a paltry balance of $140,000. Of the remaining $610,000 collected, $315,000 has gone for "general administration expenses." Some members would like to know about the rest...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...
...Hollywood last month (TIME, Oct. 18) Rome was turning Hollywood Director Rouben Mamoulian into a lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian...