Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
...broad" to be handled by plugging, business-like Dr. James M. Doran. executive secretary who wet-nursed the business through the ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...While "the world almost stood still," Tsar Alexander and with him all hope of reform, was murdered in Russia. In Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. Rockefeller added another refinery to his booming little Standard...
...Father Gapon's peaceful petitioners were shot down in hundreds outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, while Mukden was lost and the Russian Navy went to destruction in Tsushima. The Kaiser rattled his sabre at Tangier, made a crude attempt to trick Tsar Nicholas into an alliance. Mr. Balfour, innocuous leader of England's Conservatives, sank into innocuous desuetude...
...After two and a half years of blundering war, England tired of its tight-lipped professionals, put Lloyd George, an intelligent amateur, in charge. Tsar Nicholas renounced his throne while excited soldiers in St. Petersburg "swore eternal loyalty to something that they could not catch quite distinctly." Lenin arrived in Russia, half-expecting arrest, to find an uproarious reception. When his Bolsheviks had driven out Kerensky, "the poetry of revolution had been defeated by its prose...