Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will Hays issued denials that the U. S. cinema industry wished to engage the Duke at a salary of $100,000 to act internationally in the capacity which Mr. Hays fulfills nationally, "Cinema Tsar...
...empty Dutch breeches, Europeans were intrigued by details of the little-known visit last spring of Mr. & Mrs. Munters to Dictator Joseph Stalin (TIME, June 28). In his boyhood Latvia's still young Foreign Minister studied at the Vladimir Military Academy in Petrograd to become an officer in Tsar Nicholas' Imperial Army, was turned out of school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin to his face with general religious intolerance and particular oppression of the Church in Russia. Not thus challenged in years by anyone...
...depressed Marie that in spite of the ugly jolt in Spain, he must now fight the Austrians and English, but would like very much to marry her first. Marie declines. His future, she says, looks black enough without complicating it further by waving a Polish Queen in the Tsar's face. But she will be happy to continue as his mistress, will even stop talking politics...
...World's largest bell, which cracked in casting and hence is untuned, is Russia's Tsar Kolokol (Tsar of Bells), made in 1733, 19 ft. high and weighing...
Fortnight ago, wanting to remove some of its stored Del Monte canned goods, California Packing dispatched a fleet of trucks manned by members of the Teamsters Union, which on the West Coast is bossed by A. F. of L.'s beefy Dave Beck, "Tsar of Seattle Labor" and a sworn enemy of Harry Bridges. Promptly hustled to the warehouse was a crew of Bridges' unionists to picket not the warehouse but the Beck teamsters...