Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major result of the uproar caused by Hornsby's ousting last week was an announcement in Chicago by baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis that he would start an immediate investigation of betting on horse races by baseballers in general. Said Tsar Landis: "I'll have to roll up my sleeves and go to work...
After Teamster Casey died last spring at 79, his reins passed to Teamster David Beck pudgy, aggressive "Tsar of Seattle labor" who is out to organize "everything on wheels," a definition broad enough to take warehousemen as well as restaurant help, newspaper circulation hustlers and already organized brewers...
...wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides the Baron's death warrant. The candlesticks are filched en route, pawned at Budapest, shipped to Paris, auctioned in London. By the time the Countess and the Baron have caught up with the loot, they have fairly forsaken duty for love...
...Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...
...Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president of RKO Studios in Hollywood until a year ago. Promptly dubbed "producers' tsar" by Hollywood's trade press, his $75,000-a-year job of being a clearing house for the whole industry's complex and continual labor troubles will last for three years...